Phyllastrephus xavieri serlei Chapin, 1949

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 : 86

Phyllastrephus xavieri serlei Chapin

Phyllastrephus xavieri serlei Chapin, 1949: 70 (Kumba,

British Cameroons, altitude 1,000 feet).

Now Phyllastrephus xavieri serlei Chapin, 1949 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 340.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348820 , adult male, collected at Kumba, 1000 ft, 04°39′N, 09°26′E (Times Atlas), Cameroun, on 4 April 1947, by William Serle (no. C37). Gift of William Serle.

COMMENTS: Serle’s number C37 was given for the type in the original description. Chapin (1949: 71) had before him a series of 12 Serle skins of the new taxon collected in the vicinity of Kumba and a single specimen collected by R.H. Drinkwater near Nkongsamba. There are only two paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 348819, a female collected by Serle, and AMNH 415421, a male collected by Drinkwater.