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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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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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
).