Turdirostris leptorhyncha Reichenow, 1879: 155

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 35

Turdirostris leptorhyncha Reichenow, 1879: 155 .

Now: Acrocephalus gracilirostris leptorhynchus (Reichenow, 1879) . See White (1960); Mayr et al. (1986: 75).

Holotype (missing): ZMB 24269 (B 15996, Fischer no. 405), male, collected at Tchara , Tana River, [09.12.1878].

Type locality: Tschara [Tschara, Tana River County, Kenya], from the original description as well as locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one individual and the locality “Tschara, Africa orientalis” were given. Fischer & Reichenow (1879: 347) listed one specimen (no. 405) for this species with the same measurements as in the description. As such no. 405 (ZMB 24269) is the holotype, but it is missing. A further specimen of this species (Fischer no. 136) in the Berlin collection (ZMB 2000.32543) was collected at Kagehi on the 18.11.1885 but has no type status, as it was collected after publication of the description.

Tschara was very close to modern-day Kipini in the Tana River Delta area .