Phyllastrephus rabai Hartert and 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 : 85

Phyllastrephus rabai Hartert and van Someren

Phyllastrephus rabai Hartert and van Someren, 1921: 64 (Rabai) .

Now Phyllastrephus debilis rabai Hartert and van Someren, 1921 . See Keith et al., 1992: 347.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 566689 , adult male, collected at Rabai , 03°55′S, 39°34′E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 18 October 1920, by Victor G.L. van Someren. From the van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type with the above data was said to be in the Rothschild Collection, and AMNH 566689 bears the unique date of 18 October 1920. As this description was published on 27 January 1921, only those Rabai specimens collected before that date could be paratypes. There are four in AMNH, collected during October–December 1920: AMNH 566690, 566691, 566693, and 566694.