Tephrocorys cinerea erlangeri Neumann

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 : 16

Tephrocorys cinerea erlangeri Neumann

Tephrocorys cinerea erlangeri Neumann, 1906: 239 (Sheikh Mohamed am Wabbi).

Now Calandrella cinerea erlangeri ( Neumann, 1906) .

See Keith et al., 1992: 79.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 555740 , adult male, collected at Sheikh Mohammed , 07°20′N, 40°30′E ( R. J. Dowsett, personal commun.), Ethiopia, on 13 November 1894, by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith (no. 408). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann (1906: 239) had eight specimens in his type series. In the Rothschild Collection were the holotype, collected on 13 November 1894, and a second specimen collected by Smith at Sheikh Mohammed, AMNH 555741, male, 11 November 1894, a paratype. The other six paratypes are in BMNH.

Donaldson Smith (1896: 128) described the area as follows: ‘‘... we started west [from Ginir], and reached on November 10 a great grassy plain nearly 8000 feet above the sea, called the Budda. This plain extends west some 50 miles according to native report, and is then broken by the valley of the Shebeli river or Wabi, as it is called by the Gallas.’’

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 653) considered erlangeri a species in the Calandrella cinerea superspecies. For a summary of treatments of this species, see Dickinson and Dekker (2001a: 66– 69).