Lamprocolius chloropterus schraderi Neumann

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 37

Lamprocolius chloropterus schraderi Neumann

Lamprocolius chloropterus schraderi Neumann, 1908e: 65 (Aïlet in Nord Abyssinien).

Now Lamprotornis chloropterus chloropterus Swainson, 1838 . See Hartert, 1919: 134; Sclater, 1930: 65; Amadon, 1962a: 95; Fry et al., 2000: 606–607; Dickinson, 2003: 656; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 298; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 750.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 668713 , adult male, collected at Ailet , 15.34N, 39.09E ( Ash and Atkins, 2009: 400), Eritrea (= Nord Abyssinien), on 15 April 1903, by G. Schrader. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as type of schraderi the adult male collected by Schrader at Ailet on 15 April 1903 and gave the range of his new form as ‘‘Abyssenien, Shoa, Omo-Gebiet.’’ The following paratypes came to AMNH: Eritrea, Ailet, AMNH 668714 , male, 10 April 1900, AMNH 668715 , female, 16 April 1903 ; Salamona , AMNH 668716 , male, 31 January 1898, all collected by Schrader. Ethiopia, between Malo and Koscha, am Omo, AMNH 668717 , male, 18 February 1901 ; Senti-Tal zwischen Uba und Gofa, AMNH 668718 , female, 30 January 1901 ; Obere Gorra , Schoa, AMNH 668719 , female, 23 September 1900 ; Ejere-Tscheratscha , Shoa, AMNH 668720 , male, 17 September 1900, all collected by O. Neumann. Of these, AMNH 668718 was exchanged with NMZB .

See Neumann (1905: 240) for a discussion of the specimens he collected and Neumann (1902b) for a map of his localities.