Cossypha semirufa saturatior Neumann

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 : 14

Cossypha semirufa saturatior Neumann

Cossypha semirufa saturatior Neumann, 1906a: 7 (Bola goschana in Doko).

Now Cossypha semirufa semirufa (Rüppell, 1840) . See Ripley, 1964: 54, and Keith et al., 1992: 429.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 580667 , adult female, collected at Bola goschana, Doko , Ethiopia, on 12 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 786). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann gave the sex, locality, and date for the type, which he collected, without giving the number of specimens. It bears the Neumann field label, marked ‘‘Typus’’ in Neumann’s hand, and the Rothschild type label. It is also the only Neumann specimen from this locality that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 473) added Neumann’s field number of the type, thus unambiguously designating it the lectotype, should other Neumann specimens be found bearing the same data as the above specimen. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 580668–580672.

Neumann (1904a: 323) listed his collecting localities and showed his route on a map in Neumann (1902). R. Dowsett (personal commun.) placed Bola goschana, Doko, at ca. 068159N, 368509E, which is in close agreement with Neumann’s map.