Cinnyris oritis Reichenow, 1892

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 : 135

Cinnyris oritis Reichenow

Cinnyris oritis Reichenow, 1892a: 4 (Buea, Mons Kamerun, 950 m.).

Now Cyanomitra oritis oritis (Reichenow, 1892) . See Rand, 1967: 230, Fry et al., 2000: 172–174, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 259–260.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 690109, sex?, collected at Buea, 04.09N, 09.13E (Times Atlas) Mt. Cameroon (5 Mons Kamerun), 950 m., Cameroon, on 21 June 1891, by Paul R. Preuss. From ZMB via the Rothschild Museum.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1920a: 426) noted that this ‘‘Cotype’’ (5 syntype) of Cinnyris oritis was received by the Rothschild Collection on exchange from the ZMB. The original description of this form is listed in the literature as having appeared in Journal für Ornithologie 40: 191, 1892 (April, Reichenow, 1892b: 191). However, this is not the first description. Reichenow himself, on p. 190 (not 191) refers to an earlier description, Bericht über die März-Sitzung 1892, published on 17 March 1892 ( Reichenow, 1892a: 4).

Reichenow (1892a: 4, 1892b: 190) did not say how many specimens he had. There are five syntypes in ZMB, all collected in June 1891 by Preuss; the labels of all six syntypes bear an asterisk, which denotes their status as types (Frank Steinheimer, personal commun.).