Anthus sordidus sokotrae 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 : 51

Anthus sordidus sokotrae Hartert

Anthus sordidus sokotrae Hartert, 1917b: 457 (Alilo

Pass, 3,500 ft., Sokotra).

Now Anthus similis sokotrae Hartert, 1917 . See Keith et al., 1992: 224.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 571597 , adult female, collected at Alilo Pass , 3500 ft, Socotra Island, Indian Ocean, on 2 February 1899 by Henry O. Forbes and William R. Ogilvie­Grant (no. 361). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1917b: 457) said that the type, a female collected at Alilo Pass by Forbes and Ogilvie­Grant, was in the Rothschild Collection. The above specimen is the only one that came to AMNH bearing the correct data. There are three paratypes: AMNH 571598–571600, males, collected by Forbes and Ogilvie­Grant, on Socotra Island, in 1898–1899.

The Forbes and Ogilvie­Grant party turned inland (southward) at Hadıˉbuˉ, 12 °36′N, 53°59′E (Times Atlas), and camped at Elhé on the Dineˉhan watercourse. On 31 January, they ascended the Dineˉhan Valley, camped that night along the trail at 2000 ft, and reached Adho Dimellus Pass, 12°33′N, 54°03′E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.), at 3000 ft on 1 February. Camp was set up on the southern side of the pass and slightly below it. The party stayed there until 17 February ( Forbes, 1903: xlii–xlv). Alilo was said to be at 1500 ft in the Dineˉhan Valley ( Ogilvie­Grant and Forbes, 1903: 56). It is apparent from altitudes given on specimens reported on by Ogilvie­Grant and Forbes (1903) that collectors ranged up and down the mountainous countryside around the base camp near Adho Dimellus Pass.