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
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Spreo albicapillus horrensis
Keith
Spreo albicapillus horrensis
Keith, 1964: 162
(North Horr, north-west
Kenya
).
Now
Lamprotornis albicapillus horrensis
Keith, 1964
. See
Turner and Forbes-Watson, 1976: 58
;
Feare and Craig, 1999: 231
;
Zimmerman et al., 1999: 515
;
Fry et al., 2000: 633–634
;
Dickinson, 2003: 658
;
Lovette and Rubenstein, 2007: 1031–1056
;
Ash and Atkins, 2009: 301
; and Craig and Feare: 2009: 749.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 766689
, adult male, collected at
North Horr
,
1300 ft
,
03.19N
,
37.04E
(Times
Atlas
), northwest
Kenya
, on
1 November 1962
, by
Stuart Keith
(no. 579).
COMMENTS: Keith cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description. There is one
paratype
: North Horr,
AMNH 827365
, immature male,
1 November 1962
, Keith (no. 578).
Lovette and Rubenstein (2007)
, as a result of their molecular studies of starlings, have included the genus
Spreo
in the genus
Lamprotornis
. Other authors cited above have recognized
horrensis
, except
Feare and Craig (1999: 231)
and
Craig and Feare (2009: 749)
, who did not cite the extremely small measurements of the type and
paratype
of
horrensis
. The small size is noticeable in the field (
Turner and Forbes-Watson (1976: 58)
. Measurements of the two males (
Keith, 1964: 162
) and weights recorded on Keith’s labels are: Wing,
130 mm
, 137; tail, 89, 93; weights, 75, 77.