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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Sporopipes frontalis pallidior
Hartert
Sporopipes frontalis pallidior
Hartert, 1921: 136
(
Zinder
)
.
Now
Sporopipes frontalis frontalis
(Daudin, 1800)
. See
Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30
;
Dickinson, 2003: 719
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65
; and
Craig, 2010: 137
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 722589
, adult male, collected at
Zinder
,
13.46N
,
08.58E
(
Times
Atlas
), southern
Niger
(=
French
West Africa
, as on label), on
9 February 1920
, by
Angus Buchanan
(no. 345).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Buchanan’s field number of the
holotype
and noted that he had eight specimens. The seven
paratypes
, all collected by
Buchanan
in 1920, are:
Zinder
,
AMNH 722590
, immature male, 10 February
;
AMNH 722591
, immature female,
AMNH 722592
, adult female, 28 January. Takoukout, Damergou,
AMNH 722597
,
722598
, males, 13 March
;
AMNH 722599
,
722600
, females, 22 March
.
The subspecies
pallidior
is usually synonymized with nominate
frontalis
, but it was recognized by
Dickinson (2003: 719)
. It was not listed by Hartert in any of his lists of
types
in the Rothschild Collection.