Xenocichla flavicollis soror 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 : 85

Xenocichla flavicollis soror Neumann

Xenocichla flavicollis soror Neumann, 1914: 9 (Kamadekke, Ng’ Goumie­Fluss, Ogowe).

Now Chlorocichla flavicollis soror ( Neumann, 1914) . See Keith et al., 1992: 317.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 566288 , female (adult?), collected at Komadeke, 00°50′S, 10°34′E ( Chapin, 1954: 683), N’Goumié River , Moyen­Ogooue´, Gabon, on 23 November (not December) 1907, by Dr. William J. Ansorge. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The type, a female from ‘‘Kamadekke’’ collected on 23 November 1907, was said to be an Ansorge specimen in the Rothschild Collection. Three Ansorge specimens from Gabon, all females, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. This is the only specimen from Komadeke. The two paratypes are AMNH 566289 from Lambarene, Ogowe River, and AMNH 566290 from Anda (Lake Azingo).