Oriolus monachus permistus Neumann

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 : 48

Oriolus monachus permistus Neumann

Oriolus monachus permistus Neumann, 1904a: 145 (Gadat in Gofa).

Now Oriolus monacha meneliki Blundell and Lovat, 1899 . See Hartert, 1919: 134; Greenway, 1962: 132; Fry et al., 2000: 513–514; Dickinson, 2003: 488; Walther and Jones, 2008: 738; and Ash and Atkins, 2009: 247.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 670733 , adult female, collected at Gadat , Gofa Region , 06.17N, 36.42E ( Ash and Atkins, 2009: 412), Ethiopia, on 3 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 752). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Contrary to Hartert’s reference on the Rothschild type label and his comments in Hartert (1919: 134), O. m. permistus was introduced in 1904, not 1905, by Neumann (1904a: 145). In his brief original description, Neumann gave the sex, type locality, and date of collection of his type, listed the range as southern Ethiopia, south of Hauasch (Sidamo, Djamdjam, Gardulla, Uba, Gofa, Boko, Malo, Kaffa, Gimirra, and Scheko), and gave diagnostic characters. In his later paper, Neumann (1905: 233) listed the specimens he collected, which showed that the specimen collected on 3 February 1901 at Gadat was the only specimen with those data, confirming that it was the holotype, and gave his field number ‘‘752.’’

Neumann (1905: 232–236) provided a complete treatment of the species Oriolus monacha and O. larvatus , examining specimens from many collections, some of which may be paratypes of permistus. The following specimens in AMNH, all collected by Neumann in 1901, are paratypes of permistus: Gardulla, AMNH 670729 (Neumann no. 615), male, 16 January; Bolagoschona in Boko, AMNH 670730 (784), female, 11 February; Anderatsha in Kaffa, AMNH 670731 (–), female, end of March; Schekho or Kaffa, AMNH 670732 (–), female, April–March.

Neumann (1904c: 322–324) gave his itinerary, and ( Neumann, 1902b) provided a map of his expedition.