Turdus guttatus fischeri Hellmayr, 1901: 54

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 40-41

Turdus guttatus fischeri Hellmayr, 1901: 54 .

Now: Geokichla guttata fischeri ( Hellmayr, 1901) . See Deignan et al. (1964: 154); Prigogine (1985).

Holotype: ZMH 8395 (Fischer no. 1005), skin, former mount, female, collected at Pangani, 21.08.[18]83.

Paratype (missing): ZMB 24272 (B 15682, Fischer no. 266), male, collected at Kipini, [28.07.1878] .

Paratype (missing): Fischer no. 265, female, collected at Kipini, [28.05.1878].

Type locality: Pangani [Pangani River Valley, Tanga Region, Tanzania], the locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description ZMH 8395 was mentioned as type specimen with an inventory number referring to the holotype. Hellmayr (1901) examined ZMH 8395, which was available to him, but also included in the new species all Fischer specimens collected at Kipini on the basis of their measurements. Therefore, the other two specimens are regarded as paratypes. Fischer & Reichenow (1879) listed under the name Turdus guttatus two specimens from Kipini (Fischer nos. 265, 266). Only one of them (now missing) was inventoried in the Berlin collection as ZMB 24272, while the whereabouts of no. 265 are also unknown, and there are no further Fischer specimens of this subspecies (Fischer 1884; Reichenow 1887).

Concerning the distribution Hellmayr (1901) wrote: “Unsere Form wurde bisher bloss von Kipini ( Formosa Bai), dann in der Küstenregion zwischen Mombas und dem Tanafluss, sowie am Pangani beobachtet. ” (this form was only observed at Kipini ( Formosa Bay), in the coastal region between Mombasa and the River Tana as well as at the River Pangani).