Charitillas kavirondensis van Someren

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 : 83

Charitillas kavirondensis van Someren

Charitillas kavirondensis van Someren, 1920: 95 (Kakamega Forest).

Now Andropadus ansorgei kavirondensis ( van Someren, 1920) . See Hartert, 1922b: 370, and Keith et al., 1992: 291.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 567386 , adult male, collected in Kakamega Forest , 00°16′N, 34°53′E ( R. J. Dowsett, personal commun.), Kenya, on 9

February 1917, by H.J. Allen Turner (no. 1083). From the Meinertzhagen Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren (1920: 95) stated that the type, a male collected 9 February 1917 in the Kakamega Forest by Turner for Meinertzhagen , was in the Rothschild Collection and that he had seen a total of 10 specimens of the taxon, taken by Turner and by his own collectors. This specimen is the only Turner specimen with this date and locality that came to AMNH ; it is thus the holotype. There are eight specimens in AMNH, in addition to the holotype, all collected by Turner for Meinertzhagen ; these are paratypes AMNH 567387–567394 . There are no van Someren Collection specimens of this taxon in AMNH .