Mirafra fischeri kawirondensis van Someren

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775649
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scientific name	Mirafra fischeri kawirondensis van Someren
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Mirafra rufocinnamomea kawirondensis van Someren, 1921b: 125 View in CoL (Kisumu).

Now Mirafra rufocinnamomea kawirondensis van Someren, 1921 View in CoL . See Keith et al., 1992: 29.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556819 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Kisumu, 00°03′S, 34°47′E (Times Atlas), Kavirondo Gulf , Lake Victoria, Kenya, on 9 December 1917, by Dr. Victor G.L. van Someren. From the van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be in the Rothschild Museum and to bear the above data. This was the only specimen of kawirondensis that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.