Laniarius funebris rothschildi 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 : 98-99

Laniarius funebris rothschildi Neumann

Laniarius funebris rothschildi Neumann, 1907b: 595 (Sagan­Fluss) .

Now Laniarius funebris funebris (Hartlaub, 1863) . See

Rand, 1960: 333, and Fry et al., 2000: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 662308 , adult female, collected on the Sagan River , Borana area, southern Ethiopia, on 25 May 1905, by Baron Maurice de Rothschild. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann (1907b), reporting on a collection made by Baron Maurice de Rothschild, named a number of new taxa, the types of which were not always collected by M. Rothschild. Nor did he always say where the types were deposited. In the case of L. f. rothschildi, Neumann (1907b: 595) said that he had five specimens from Tertale and the Sagan River before him and that the type was a female from the Sagan River, collected by Rothschild on 25 May 1905. It was listed as the type by Hartert (1920: 450), and I consider it the holotype. Three of the four paratypes are in AMNH. AMNH 662309 is a female, collected at Tertale, Borana, 21 May 1905, by M. Rothschild. Neumann (1907b: 595) also referred two of his own specimens, reported on earlier ( Neumann, 1905b: 222), to this new taxon. They are AMNH 662298, male, 2 January 1901, Neumann no. 551, and AMNH 662299, female?, 30 December 1900, Neumann no. 531, both collected on the Galana River, Lake Abaya. Both came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The fourth paratype was not found. Should it be found and bear data matching the specimen listed above as the holotype, then AMNH 662308 would become the lectotype, having been designated by Hartert (1920: 450).

Borana and Tertale are shown by Neumann (1902, map) as areas just to the east of Lake Stefanie (ca. 04°40′N, 36°50′E [ Seltzer, 1962: 1824]) and south of the Sagan River. On the same map, the Galana River is shown feeding into Lake Abaya (ca. 06°20′N, 38°E [ Seltzer, 1962: 2]).

Chlorophoneus elgeyuensis van Someren Chlorophoneus elgeyuensis van Someren, 1919a: 23

(Marakwet, Elgeyu).

Now Malaconotus nigrifrons nigrifrons (Reichenow,

1896). See Hartert, 1928: 210, and Fry et al., 2000:

401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 663823 , adult female, collected at Marakweti (sic) (= Maraquet), 00°59′N, 35°32′E ( Chapin, 1954: 698), Elgeyo Escarpment, Kenya, on 5 October 1918, by Victor G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his description, van Someren (1919a: 23) noted that his type bore the above data and that it was in the Rothschild Collection. This is the only specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. A paratype is in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 70).

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 500) included the species nigrifrons in the genus Telophorus .