Cisticola terrestris mauensis van Someren

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 43-44

Cisticola terrestris mauensis van Someren

Cisticola terrestris mauensis van Someren, 1922: 207 (Mau) .

Now Cisticola ayresii mauensis van Someren, 1922 . See Lynes, 1930: 152–154, 646, and Urban et al., 1997: 214.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 592869 , adult male, collected at Mau , Kenya, on 18 January 1917, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that the type was a male in the Rothschild Collection, collected at Mau on 18 January 1917. AMNH 592869 is the only specimen of this form with these data that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; it bears a Rothschild type label and a small field label annotated ‘‘ Type mauensis’’. Nine specimens, including the holotype, were examined by van Someren. Six paratypes are now in AMNH: AMNH 592873 and 592875–592879; the other two paratypes are in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 48). Polhill (1988) gave the coordinates of the Mau Escarpment as ca. 00.35S, 36.03 E.