Lanius affinis G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884c: 261

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 28-29

Lanius affinis G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884c: 261 .

Now: Lanius collurio Linnaeus, 1758 . See Reichenow (1903b: 622).

Syntype: ZMB 2000.4096 (B 19005, Fischer no. 586), skin, male? (male with female plumage?), collected “near Lindi (10° s.B.)”, [04.1882] .

Syntype: ZMB 27562 (B 18653, Fischer no. 749), mount, female, collected at “Klein Aruscha”, 29.03.1883 .

Syntype (missing): male, juvenile, collected near Pangani, [01.12.1882].

Type locality: “bei Lindi (10° s.B.)” [Lindi, Lindi Region, Tanzania], “Klein Aruscha” [Arusha Chini, Arusha Region, Tanzania] and Pangani [Pangani, Tanga Region, Tanzania], all localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: The original description clearly refers to the specimen collected “bei Lindi (10° s.B.)” (ZMB 2000.4096). However two further specimens—juveniles (in the original description)—were mentioned and described within this species (ZMB 2000.27562 and a further specimen that was not inventoried in Berlin). All these specimens are regarded as syntypes. ZMB 27562 was mentioned as type in the catalogue of the ZMB, while Fischer (1884) did not list the name Lanius affinis . Fischer no. 749 (ZMB 27562) and the juvenile male are mentioned under Lanius phoenicuroides (Schalow) but with no obvious link to Fischer & Reichenow (1884c). Specimen 586 is not listed.

The name Lanius affinis was preoccupied by Lanius affinis Legge, 1876 (a species from Sri Lanka, now Tephrodornis affinis ). Later Shelley (1894: 42) proposed the name Enneoctonus reichenovi (Shelley) for Lanius affinis Fischer & Reichenow, 1884 , which Reichenow (1903b) treated as a synonym of nominate Lanius collurio Linnaeus.