Mirafra africana harterti Neumann, 1908

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Mirafra africana harterti Neumann

Mirafra africana harterti Neumann, 1908d: 45 (Kiboko

River, South Ukamba).

Now Mirafra africana harterti Neumann, 1908 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 23.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556709 , adult male, collected on 25 April 1898, on the Kiboko River , Kenya, by Dr. William John Ansorge (no. 375). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Although both the male and female were described by Neumann and the sex of the type was not given, it was said to have been collected by Ansorge and to be in the Rothschild Collection, and was so reported by Hartert (1919: 164–165). This is the only Ansorge specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Kiboko, a station on the ‘‘ Uganda Railway and river north of Kibesi, Machakos’’ ( Jackson and Sclater, 1938: xxx), is at 02°12′S, 37°43′E (Times Atlas).