VANGIDAE, Swainson, 1831

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 : 105

VANGIDAE

Abbotornis schistocercus Neumann

Abbotornis schistocercus Neumann, 1908b: 11 (West Central Madagascar).

Now Leptopterus chabert schistocercus (Neumann, 1908) . See Langrand, 1990: 297, Morris and Hawkins, 1998: 250, and Yamagishi et al., 2001.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 664461 , adult male, collected ‘‘ C. O. Madagascar’ ’. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann said that the type was in the Rothschild Collection, and he gave measurements of one specimen. AMNH 664461, listed above as the holotype, was the only specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it bears the Rothschild type label. Although Neumann did not state the sex of this specimen, it is marked ‘‘mâl’’ on the original label.

The locality ‘‘C. O. Madagascar’’ was interpreted by Neumann as west­central Madagascar. Hartert (1920: 428) noted: ‘‘Years ago Lord Rothschild bought from a dealer in Paris, now deceased, a number of beautiful skins from Madagascar, all labeled ‘C. O. Madagascar,’ which, judging from the species and subspecies it contained, must mean Côte occidentale, i.e. west coast of Madagascar. Out of this collection Professor Neumann described a new form of Abbotornis ... ’’. Hartert (1920: 454) added that the purchase was in 1893.