Anthreptes collaris ugandae van Someren

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 134

Anthreptes collaris ugandae van Someren

Anthreptes collaris ugandae van Someren, 1921: 113 (Maraquet) .

Now Hedydipna collaris garguensis (Mearns, 1915) . See Rand, 1967: 219, Fry et al., 2000: 219–221, 224, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 253–254.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 685893 , adult male, collected at Maraquet , 00.59N, 35.33E ( Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on 10 October 1918, by collectors for V.G. L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as the type of ugandae a male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected at Maraquet on 10 October 1918. There are two specimens with such data that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but the specimen that is now AMNH 685893 is labeled ‘‘ A. collaris ugandae Type’’ by van Someren and it bears a Rothschild type label. The type of ugandae is listed by Hartert (1928a: 206), but he did not further distinguish between the two specimens. Because AMNH 685893 is van Someren’s intended type and has been considered the type because it bears a Rothschild type label, I hereby designate it the lectotype in order to remove the ambiguity introduced by a second specimen with the same data.

It is difficult to know whether van Someren based his description of garguensis entirely on his own specimens, because he did spend time working in the Rothschild Collection before the publication of his large treatise and may have had other material. In that work ( van Someren, 1922: 203 ), he listed a number of localities that he included in the range of ugandae, and the following list of supposed paralectotypes includes all specimens from those localities that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, most, but not all of which, were from the van Someren Collection: Entebbe, AMNH 685869–685873; Budongo, AMNH 685877– 685881; Elgon, AMNH 685884, 685885; Elgenyu, AMNH 685886; Bugoma, AMNH 685887, 685888; Lugalambo, AMNH 685889;

Maraquet, AMNH 685892; Kakamega Road, AMNH 685896; Nakuru, AMNH 685904; Kyambu, AMNH 685905–685908.

See A. c. somereni for use of Hedydipna instead of Anthodiaeta .