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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Lamprocolius sycobius pestis van Someren Lamprocolius sycobius pestis van Someren, 1921c: 124 ( Samburu ) . Now Lamprotornis chalybaeus sycobius (Hartlaub, 1859) . See van Someren, 1922a: 131 , Hartert, 1928: 192 ; Sclater, 1930: 657 ; Amadon, 1962a: 95 ; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 512 ; Fry et al., 2000: 603–606 ; Dickinson, 2003: 656 ; Craig and Feare, 2009: 752 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 668696 , adult male, collected at Samburu , 03.46S , 39.16E ( Polhill, 1988 ), Kenya , on 18 October 1917 . From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that his type from Samburu , collected on 18 October 1917 , was in the Rothschild Collection and that he included specimens from Mombasa , Samburu , Maungu, and N’di in pestis . The holotype and three paratypes , all from Samburu , came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 668695, 668697, 668698 , two males, one female, 23–27 July 1918 . There is one paratype in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 72 ).