Ammomanes deserti geyri Hartert, 1924

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 : 12

Ammomanes deserti geyri Hartert

Ammomanes deserti geyri Hartert, 1924a: 41 (Farak, Damergu) .

Now Ammomanes deserti geyri Hartert, 1924 . See Keith et al., 1992: 73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558649 , adult male, collected at Farak , 15°18′N, 08°55′E ( Giraudoux et al., 1988: 137), Damergu , Niger, on 29 June 1922, by Captain Angus Buchanan (no. 148). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert (1924a: 41) gave Buchanan’s field number for the holotype and listed a male, a female, and a female? from Farak. Only two of these specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: the holotype and AMNH 558650, female?, 29 June 1922, Buchanan no. 150, a paratype. The latter specimen has a note on Buchanan’s label that the colors of the soft parts are the ‘‘same as no. 149’’. The whereabouts of that specimen is not known.