Sycobrotus Emini Hartlaub

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 : 18

Sycobrotus Emini Hartlaub

Sycobrotus Emini Hartlaub, 1882b: 92 (Centralafrika) .

Now Ploceus baglafecht emini ( Hartlaub, 1882) . See Hartlaub, 1882c: 322, pl. 1; Hartert, 1919: 138; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 36; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 106–108; Craig, 2010: 190.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 723048 , adult male, collected at Agoro (= Agaru, as on label), 03.47N, 33.02E ( Chapin, 1954a), Uganda, on 30 April 1881, by Emin Bey (no. 101). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, a male and a female were described, but no type was designated. Hartlaub (1882c: 322), under Hyphantornis , described a male, said that he had a second male, and described females, but again did not indicate a type, saying only that he had five specimens from Agaru and thereby restricting the type locality. Hartert (1919: 138), by listing the specimen bearing Emin’s no. 101 as the type, designated it the lectotype. AMNH 723049, female, Agaru, 1 May 1881 is the only other Rothschild specimen; it is a paralectotype of S. emini . The name is not listed by Sánchez- Osés (2010).

Hartlaub (1882c: pl. 1, fig. 1 ) illustrated both male and female, captioned ‘‘ Sycobrotus Emini. ’’

Figures

Fig. 1. Holotype of Corvus corax canariensis Hartert and Kleinschmidt, 1901, showing extensive damage to plumage due to chemical or insect damage.