Bradornis taruensis van Someren

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 77-78

Bradornis taruensis van Someren

Bradornis taruensis van Someren, 1921: 104 (Campi-ya-bibi).

Now Bradornis microrhynchus taruensis van Someren, 1921 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 104–105.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 603414 , adult male, collected at Kampi-ya-Bibi (5 Campi-ya-bibi), ca. 01.33S, 36.32E ( Polhill, 1988: 103), Kenya, on 3 July 1918, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren gave sex, date, and locality of his type in the Rothschild Collection as above. However, four Rothschild specimens with those data came to AMNH. Neither van Someren (1922: 94) nor Hartert (1928: 220) further distinguished the type. AMNH 603414 is the specimen marked ‘‘Type’’ by van Someren, and it bears the Rothschild type label. In order to make its status unambiguous, I hereby designate AMNH 603414 the lectotype of Bradornis taruensis . Paralectotypes are: AMNH 603415–603427 from Kampi-ya-Bibi; AMNH 603428– 603430 from Manugu; and AMNH 603431– 603434 from M’buyuni, all collected in June, July, and August 1918 by van Someren.

Urban et al. (1997: 454) and Dickinson (2003: 690) included microrhynchus Reichenow, 1887 in Melaenornis .