Oreicola ferrea haringtoni Hartert

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 23-24

Oreicola ferrea haringtoni Hartert

Oreicola ferrea haringtoni Hartert, 1910a: 711 (Lien­Kiang bei Fu­tschau in China).

Now Saxicola ferreus Gray, 1846 . See Urquhart, 2002: 258.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 582536 , adult male, collected at Lianjiang (5 Lien­Kiang), 268149N, 1198339E (Times Atlas), Fujian, China, on 18 January 1887, collector unknown (no. 1445). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Only two specimens labeled ‘‘ Foochow’ ’ came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The above specimen is the only male and the only one collected on 18 January 1887 ; it bears the Rothschild type label. In the original description, Hartert gave the range of haringtoni as including Moupin and other parts of Sichuan to Fujian in southeastern China, as well as Myanmar and the mountainous land south of the Brahmaputra River. Using these localities as a guide, I consider the following specimens from the Rothschild Collection, collected before 1910, to be paratypes: AMNH 582537 , 1887–1888 , ‘‘Swatow’’ (5 Shan­t’ou), Guangdong ; AMNH 582538 , 1886 , ‘‘ Foochow’ ’ (5 Fujian) ; AMNH 582539 , 1869 , Moupin ; AMNH 582591–582595 , 1900 – 1908 , Myanmar, three of them collected by Herbert H. Harington ; and AMNH 582602 , 1905 , Margherita , Upper Assam, India .

Vaurie (1959: 340) and Cheng (1987: 613) recognized haringtoni. Michael Walters (personal commun.) has found that ‘‘the eggs of haringtoni are very distinctly different from those of the nominate, so I would agree with Vaurie that the race is worthy of recognition.’’ According to David and Gosselin (2002b: 263, 280), the genus Saxicola is masculine.

Myrmecocichla buchanani Rothschild Myrmecocichla buchanani Rothschild, 1920: 33

(Takoukout, Damergou, 1550 feet, north of

Kano).

Now Myrmecocichla aethiops aethiops Cabanis,

1850. See Ripley, 1964: 116, and Keith et al.,

1992: 546.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 582644 , adult male, collected at Takukut (5 Takoukout), 1550 feet, 158079N, 088309E ( Giraudoux et al., 1988: 138), Damergu, Niger, on 13 March 1920, by Capt. Angus Buchanan (no. 441). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The unique collector’s number was given in the original description. Eleven specimens of this form, collected by Buchanan, were listed by Hartert (1921: 115). The 10 paratypes are: AMNH 582637–582643 and 583645–582647.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 543) treated Myrmecocichla in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 687) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Pentholaea albifrons pachyrhyncha Neumann

Pentholaea albifrons pachyrhyncha Neumann,

1906a: 8 (Uba, West­Abhang).

Now Myrmecocichla albifrons pachyrhyncha

(Neumann, 1906). See Keith et al., 1992: 551.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 581512 , adult male, collected at Uba , west slope of the Senti Valley , Ethiopia, on 27 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 678). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated a male type, listed both male and female, and gave two wing measurements, but no field number. Later, he ( Neumann, 1906b: 289) listed two specimens and included his field numbers of the male (marked ‘‘Typus’’ by Neumann) and the second specimen, which he listed as /?. This specimen, which Neumann (1906b: 289) did not dissect himself, was sexed as a male on the field label, but he considered it to be a female rather than an immature male. Hartert (1920: 472) thought it to be a young male changing into adult plumage, and he added a note to that effect on the label and in Hartert (1920: 472). It is the paratype, AMNH 581512, Neumann no. 679.

The description of this subspecies is sometimes cited as Neumann (1906b: 289), published in April; however, the description first appeared in Neumann (1906a: 8), published in January.

The USBGN (1982a: 557, 657) listed Zagp Shet’ (5 Senti) at 068399N, 378129E; of two Ubas listed, the closest is at 068189N, 378009E (USBGN, 1982a: 617).