Turdinus pyrrhopterus kivuensis Neumann

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 68

Turdinus pyrrhopterus kivuensis Neumann Turdinus pyrrhopterus kivuensis Neumann,

1908a: 55 (Mt. Sabjingo (2700 m.)).

Now Illadopsis pyrrhoptera pyrrhoptera (Rei­

chenow and Neumann, 1895). See Ripley and

Beehler, 1985, and Fry et al., 2000: 20.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588772 , adult female, collected at Mt. Sabinyo (5 Sabjingo), 2700 m, 018229S, 298369E ( Times Atlas ), Kivu, Congo (Kinshasa), on 30 August 1907, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 1128). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen is the only one mentioned in the original description and the only specimen that came to AMNH collected by Grauer in 1907 on the Western Kivu Volcanoes.

Deignan (1964b: 257) included this species in the genus Trichastoma and did not recognize subspecies.