Xenocichla harterti Reichenow

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 : 84-85

Xenocichla harterti Reichenow

Xenocichla harterti Reichenow, 1895a: 60 (no type locality given).

Now Chlorocichla simplex (Hartlaub, 1855) . See Hartert, 1922b: 368, Rand and Deignan, 1960: 261, and Keith et al., 1992: 314.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 565957 , adult male, collected at Robertsport , 06°45′N, 11°22′W (Times Atlas), Liberia, on 12 June 1891, by Jackson Demery (no. 25). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Reichenow (1895a: 60) said that the type of harterti was in the Rothschild Collection but did not mention a type locality. He gave the range as southern Sierra Leone (Sulymah Riv­ er) and northern Liberia (Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount), with specimens also in Leiden and Berlin. Hartert (1922b: 368) designated the above specimen the lectotype, the only male specimen collected by Demery. Paralectotypes at AMNH are AMNH 565956, Sulymah River, Sierra Leone; AMNH 565958, and 565959, Robertsport; and AMNH 565960, and 565961, Grand Cape Mount, all females collected by Demery.

Hartert (1922b: 368) noted that ‘‘The type specimen, like many others from Liberia, has been in spirits, and it is now admitted that the supposed differences were due to the effect of the spirits’’, and he synonymized X. harterti with Criniger simplex . This is not Criniger simplex of Wallace, 1862 ( Peters et al., 1960: 288), but is Trichophorus (= Criniger ) simplex Hartlaub, 1855 , now placed in the genus Chlorocichla ( Peters et al., 1960: 261; Keith et al., 1992: 314).