Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen

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 : 192

Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen

Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen, 1923b: 158 (4000 feet, Wasil, Yemen).

Now Terpsiphone viridis harterti (Meinertzhagen, 1923) . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 289.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 652227 , adult male, collected at Wasil , 4000 ft, Yemen, on 25 February 1913, by G.W. Bury (no. 426). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Meinertzhagen designated as the holotype the only Bury specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected at Wasil on 25 February 1913. Meinertzhagen examined seven males of harterti , and females were also available to him from Yemen and Lahej. Only one male paratype is in AMNH: AMNH 652228 from Wasil. Two females and one unsexed specimen collected by Bury at Wasil or in ‘‘S. Arabia’’, and a female from Lahej, collected on the Percival/Dodson Expedition, would have been available to Meinertzhagen and are also paratypes: AMNH 652229–652232.

Bury (in Sclater, 1917: 136) described Wasil as a ‘‘half-ruined caravanserai … perched on a spur of the main heights at 4200 feet’’, between Hajeilah and Menakha (5 Manākhah) at ca. 15.01N, 43.41E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.). It is shown on the map in Sclater (1917: opp. p. 131).