Cotile pembertoni Hartert

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 : 33

Cotile pembertoni Hartert

Cotile pembertoni Hartert, 1902f: 76 ( Angola, ad flumen Cuanza).

Now Riparia paludicola paludicola (Vieillot, 1817) . See Peters, 1960a: 97, and Keith et al., 1992: 138.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 559355 , adult male, collected at Dondo , 09°41′S, 14°25′E (Times Atlas), Cuanza River, Angola, on 8 June 1901, by C. Hubert Pemberton. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description. A total of four specimens were collected by Pemberton with the same locality and date ( Hartert, 1902f: 77). The above specimen bears the Rothschild type label and was intended by Hartert (1922b: 377) to be the type; I hereby designate it the lectotype in order to remove the ambiguity and avoid any possible future confusion. Paralectotypes AMNH 559356–559358 were cataloged in AMNH, but I did not find AMNH 559356 in the collection.