Ammomanes deserti mya Hartert, 1912

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 : 11-12

Ammomanes deserti mya Hartert

Ammomanes deserti mya Hartert, 1912b: 230 (Oued

Mya).

Now Ammomanes deserti mya Hartert, 1912 . See Keith et al., 1992:73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558617 , adult male, collected at Wadi Mya , Algeria, on 7 April 1912, by Ernst Hartert and C. Hilgert (no. 200). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert and Hilgert’s field number was cited for the holotype in the original description. Although Hartert (1912b: 230) did not say how many specimens he had, AMNH 558618– 558639 are part of the original series collected by Hartert and Hilgert in the Wadi Mya area in April and May 1912 and are paratypes.

Hartert (1913: 1, 13, 43; 1919: 167) gave further information on this collecting locality, noting that ‘‘ Oued’ ’ (= Wadi) is the Arab word for ‘‘riv­ er, or in the Sahara more generally river­bed, as rivers there very seldom have water’’, and that Wadi Mya lies between the deserted Fort Miribel, 29°25′N, 03°00′E (Times Atlas), and Ain­Salah, 27°12′N, 02°29′E (Times Atlas) .