Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni Chapin, 1948

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 : 191

Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni Chapin

Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni Chapin, 1948: 114 (Budongo Forest, Uganda).

Now Terpsiphone rufiventer somereni Chapin, 1948 . See Urban et al., 1997: 543.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 652518 , adult male, collected at Budongo , ca. 01.47N, 31.35E ( Polhill, 1988: 21), Uganda, on 14 June 1919, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Chapin gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had studied 30 specimens, probably including the type but excluding immature and juvenile specimens; he had also borrowed some specimens from van Someren. It proved very difficult to decide which specimens are paratypes, as Chapin did not indicate this on the labels. All specimens of somereni from Budongo and Bugoma are paratypes: Budongo: AMNH 652513–652517 and 652519–652527; Bugoma: AMNH 652528–652533. There are also two paratypes from Budongo at RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 56). Chapin (1948: 121) presented a chart of the occurrence of hybrids in the Entebbe-Mabira area of Uganda where somereni also occurs. Using this chart and his description, I was able to decide that three additional males, five females, and three immatures were possible paratypes of somereni: Lugalambo: males, AMNH 652534 and 652535, females, AMNH 652536, 652537, and 6452538; Mabira: immature female, AMNH 652540, female, AMNH 652541; Mubango, female, AMNH 652542; Kyetuma, immature male, AMNH 652546; Sezibwa River, male, AMNH 652552, and immature female, AMNH 652553.