Dicrurus modestus ugandensis van Someren

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 : 51-52

Dicrurus modestus ugandensis van Someren

Dicrurus modestus ugandensis van Someren, 1921a: 102 (Budongo) .

Now Dicrurus modestus coracinus J. and E. Verreaux, 1851. See van Someren, 1922a: 125; Hartert, 1928: 191; Vaurie, 1949b: 222–231; 1962: 139–140; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 506; Fry et al., 2000: 529–531; Dickinson, 2003: 491; and Rocamora and Yeatman-Berthelot, 2009: 223–224.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671503 , adult male, collected at Budongo , ca. 01.47N, 31.35E ( Polhill, 1988), Bunyoro, Uganda, on 10 December 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type with the above data was in the Rothschild collection; he also recorded examining 19 specimens from Bugoma , Budongo , Lugalambo , Mabira , and Elgon in Uganda and from Kavirondo in ‘‘ East Africa. ’’ The following paratypes are in AMNH: Budongo, AMNH 671502 , 671504–671506 , three males, one female, 5–6 June 1919, AMNH 671507 , female, 20 December 1918 ; Elgon , AMNH 671509 , female, 7 March 1915 ; Mabira,

AMNH 671515 , female, 19 September 1913 ; Lugalambo, AMNH 671516 , 671517 , two males, 30 August 1910, AMNH 671518 , male, 5 September 1916, AMNH 671519– 671521 , two males, one female, 25 January–2 February 1919 .