Galerida theklae erlangeri Hartert, 1904

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Galerida theklae erlangeri Hartert

Galerida theklae erlangeri Hartert, 1904a: 237 ( Tanger). Now Galerida malabarica erlangeri Hartert, 1904 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 103.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 557869 , adult female, collected at Tanger, 35°48′N, 05°45′W (Times Atlas), Morocco, on 16 March 1897, by Ólcese (no. 1177). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Ólcese’s number 1177 in the original description. A second Ólcese specimen, AMNH 557870, is a paratype. Vaurie (1959: 50) and Cramp (1988: 163) treated G. malabarica as a species separate from G. theklae , and erlangeri as a subspecies of G. theklae .

Galerida schlüteri Kleinschmidt

Galerida schlüteri Kleinschmidt, 1904: 196–197 (Kerrata, Bône) .

Now Galerida malabarica ruficolor Whitaker, 1898 . See Hartert, 1919: 166, Peters, 1960a: 62, and Keith et al., 1992: 103.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 558074, adult male, collected at Kerrata, Algeria, on 4 May 1904, by Ernst Flückiger (no. 295). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Kleinschmidt (1904: 196) said that he had ‘‘eine Reihe von Brutvögeln aus Kerrata’’, but did not designate a type or give any further information regarding the series. This syntype is marked ‘‘cotypus’’ in what Hartert (1919: 166) said was Kleinschmidt’s hand, and in listing it, Hartert gave the information cited above but did not mention other ‘‘cotypes’’. In addition to the syntype, nine specimens from Kerrata collected by Flückiger, AMNH 558075–558083, came to AMNH with the Rothschild collection, none of which is marked ‘‘cotypus’’.

According to Seltzer (1962: 932) Kerrata is a village in the Babor Range (36°49′N, 05°24′E, Times Atlas) of Little Kabylia, 22 miles southeast of Bougie (= Bejaia, 36°49′N, 05°03′E, Times Atlas).

Peters (1960a: 62) and Cramp (1988: 163) treated ruficolor as a subspecies of Galerida theklae . Sibley and Monroe (1990: 655) and Keith et al. (1992: 103) treated malabarica and theklae as species.