Laniarius graueri Hartert

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 : 99

Laniarius graueri Hartert

Laniarius graueri Hartert, 1908: 9 (Forest west of Lake

Albert Edward).

Now Malaconotus multicolor graueri ( Hartert, 1908) .

See Fry et al., 2000: 397.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 663636 , adult male, collected in primeval forest (‘‘Urwald’’), 1600 m, 90 km west of Lake Edward , Congo (Kinshasa), on 14 February 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 2039). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Grauer’s field number of the type was given in the original description. A paratype, AMNH 663637, adult female, collected in the same locality on the same date by R. Grauer (no. 2060), was also received with the Rothschild Collection.

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

Laniarius rubiginosus rudolfi Hartert Laniarius rubiginosus rudolfi Hartert, 1908: 10 (Forest

90 km west of Lake Albert Edward).

Now Malaconotus multicolor graueri ( Hartert, 1908) .

See Rand, 1960: 337, and Fry et al., 2000: 397.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 663780 , adult female, collected in primeval forest (‘‘Urwald’’), 90 km west of Lake Edward , Congo (Kinshasa), on 7 February 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 1979). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This is the only specimen of this taxon from Lake Edward that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and Grauer’s field number of the type was given in the original description.

Chlorophoneus nigrifrons conceptus Hartert Chlorophoneus nigrifrons conceptus Hartert, 1923c: 79

(west of Lake Tanganyika).

Now Malaconotus multicolor graueri ( Hartert, 1908) .

See Rand, 1960: 337, and Fry et al., 2000: 397.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 663824 , adult male (golden­breasted phase), collected in forest, 120 km west of Lake Tanganika , 2300 m, Tanzania, on 22 July 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (3090). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert (1923c: 79) stated only that the type was in the Rothschild Collection and gave measurements for one male and at least two females from west of Lake Tanganyika, collected in 1908 by Rudolf Grauer. Hartert (1928: 211) designated the male collected on 22 July 1908 the lectotype, but added cryptically: ‘‘We have now two males and one female ... ’’. Three Grauer specimens of the golden­breasted phase, collected in 1908 west of Lake Tanganika, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. In addition to the lectotype, there are two paralectotypes. One, AMNH 663825 (Grauer no. 3099), collected on 24 July 1908 in primeval forest west of Tanganika at 2000 m, was sexed as a male by Grauer; (? ♀) has been added in pencil on the field label, and ‘‘vvs’’ (Victor van Someren) has added ‘‘ nigrifrons juv’’ to the Rothschild label. This must be the specimen published first as a female and then listed as a male by Hartert. The second paralectotype, AMNH 663826 (Grauer no. 2993), collected on 4 July 1908 in primeval forest west of Tanganika at 2000 m, is a female.