Telophonus australis dohertyi 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 : 96-97

Telophonus australis dohertyi Neumann

Telophonus australis dohertyi Neumann, 1907a: 370 (Escarpment) .

Tchagra australis minor (Reichenow, 1887) . See Rand, 1960: 324, and Fry et al., 2000: 422.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 663228 , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’, 6500 ft, Kikuyu Mountains, Kenya, in January 1901, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann had borrowed specimens from Rothschld and had before him 6 of the 11 Doherty specimens from ‘‘Escarpment’’; he stated that the type was in the Rothschild Collection and listed the above data. However, there are two males collected by Doherty at ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’ in January 1901, and Hartert’s (1920: 450) list does not distinguish between them. Because it is impossible to know today which of the specimens Neumann had borrowed, and because the above specimen bears the Rothschild type label, was marked ‘‘typus’’ by Neumann, and was clearly intended as the type, I hereby designate AMNH 663228 the lectotype in order to avoid any future confusion .

For a discussion of this locality, see Riparia paludicola dohertyi .