Cisticola ansorgei Neumann

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 : 38

Cisticola ansorgei Neumann

Cisticola ansorgei Neumann, 1906b: 114 (Caconda) .

Now Cisticola rufilatus ansorgei Neumann, 1906 . See Lynes, 1930: 238–240, Urban et al., 1997: 168, and Dean, 2000: 227.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 593189 , adult male, collected at Caconda , 13.43S, 15.05E ( Dean, 2000: 371), Angola, on 7 (not 2) September 1904, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 893). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann gave the collecting date of the type as 2 September, but Hartert (1920: 466) has already called attention to this error; it is the only Caconda male collected in September 1904, is marked ‘‘ Typus’ ’ by Neumann, and bears a Rothschild type label. Neumann (1906b: 114) examined a series of 18 specimens (including the holotype). The 17 paratypes are AMNH 593190–593206 ; I did not find AMNH 593205 in the collection. The range was given as Benguela ; two specimens collected in July 1906 in Mossamedes by Ansorge are not considered paratypes .