Tricholais occipitalis G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 181

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 : 32

Tricholais occipitalis G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 181 .

Now: Eremomela scotops scotops Sundevall, 1850 . See White (1962a: 723); but see also Mayr et al. (1986: 201).

Syntype: ZMB 27386 (B 18624, Fischer no. 620), skin, former mount, male, collected at Pangani, 25.12.1882 .

Syntype: ZMH 8325 (Fischer no. 642) skin, former mount, female, collected at Maurui, 14.01.[18]83 .

Type locality: Pangani [Lower Pangani River, Tanga Region, Tanzania] and Maurui [Maurui, Tanga Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one individual and the localities “Pangani” and “Maurui” were given. Fischer (1884) listed two specimens for this species, one collected in Pangani (no. 620) and one collected in Maurui (no. 642). Therefore both are syntypes for this species. ZMH 8325 was mentioned as the type specimen in Bolau (1898). Both specimens were collected at the beginning of Fischer’s expedition to Masailand and Lake Naivasha. He travelled up the Tanzania coast to Pangani and the mouth of the Pangani River, and then followed the river north passing through the town of Maurui some two weeks later (see Fischer 1885b, c).