Bias musicus changamwensis 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 : 99

Bias musicus changamwensis van Someren

Bias musicus changamwensis van Someren, 1919: 24 (Changamwe, Mombasa).

Now Bias musicus changamwensis van Someren, 1919 . See Urban et al., 1997: 552.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 649713, adult male, and 649714, female, collected at Changamwe, 04.01S, 39.38E ( Polhill, 1988: 39), Kenya, on 21 July 1918, by collectors for V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Male and female specimens bearing this date were listed in the original description as ‘‘Types’’, and both are listed as ‘‘Types’’ by Hartert (1928: 220). They are the only two van Someren specimens from Changamwe that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Spawls (1978: 13) noted that Changamwe was a railway station inland from Mombasa.

Del Hoyo et al. (2006: 185) treat Bias musicus as monotypic.