Platysteira cyanea aethiopica Neumann, 1905

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 : 100-101

Platysteira cyanea aethiopica Neumann

Platysteira cyanea aethiopica Neumann, 1905b: 210 (Banka in Malo).

Now Platysteira cyanea aethiopica Neumann, 1905 . See Urban et al., 1997: 568.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 649583 , adult male, collected at Bonca (5 Banka), 06.16N, 36.15E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.), Malo, Ethiopia, on 15 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 807). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann listed his specimen number 807, now AMNH 649583 , as ‘‘Typus der subspecies’’ and five additional specimens in his type series. The paratypes are: AMNH 649584 (Neumann no. 832), male, Banka, 16 February 1901 ; AMNH 649585 (808), female, Banka, 15 February 1901 (also listed as ‘‘Cotypus für das weibliche Kleid’’) ; AMNH 649589 (1138), male, Bako, Binescho, 19 April 1901 ; AMNH 649590 (1044), juvenile female, Kankati Gibbe, Djemma, 26 March 1901 ; and AMNH 649591 (1006), female, Anderatscha, 16 March 1901. I did not find AMNH 649589 in the collection .