Xenocichla orientalis Hartlaub

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
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scientific name	Xenocichla orientalis Hartlaub
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Treatment

Xenocichla orientalis Hartlaub, 1883: 425 (Tamaja) . Now Pyrrhurus scandens orientalis ( Hartlaub, 1883) .

See Keith et al., 1992: 322.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 566638, adult female, collected at Tomaya (= Tamaja), 04°38′N, 29°50′E ( Chapin, 1954: 729), BahrelGhazal Prov., Sudan ( Chapin, 1953: 156), on 4 November 1882, by Emin Pasha (no. 222). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartlaub (1887: 316) listed only one specimen collected, and AMNH 566638 is the only specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Rand and Deignan (1960: 264) and Sibley and Monroe (1990: 587) included scandens in the genus Phyllastrephus .