Lanius excubitorius intercedens 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 : 104-105

Lanius excubitorius intercedens Neumann

Lanius excubitorius intercedens Neumann, 1905b: 228 (Hauasch, südlich des Sekwala).

Now Lanius excubitoroides intercedens Neumann, 1905 . See Fry et al., 2000: 356, and Harris and Franklin, 2000: 148.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 660718 , adult male, collected at Hawash–Lake Zwai , ca. 08°00′N, 38°50′E (Times Atlas), Ethiopia, on 19 November 1900, by Oscar Neumann (no. 250). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann gave the field number of the type in the original description. The collecting locality as given on the original label is ‘‘Hauasch–Zwaï See’’. In his published itinerary, Neumann (1904a: 322) noted that he was on the Hawash on 18–19 November and on the Maki River, Lake Zwai, from 20 to 26 November. Neumann (1902: 381) described this area as follows: ‘‘The Hawash was now so low that we easily marched through it. From here to Lake Zwaï the country is covered with typical acacia bush... ’’.

Neumann (1905b: 228) listed seven paratypes, giving his field numbers. They are AMNH 660703 (255), 660704 (251), 660707 (1042), 660708 (228), 660709 (227), 660710 (226), and 660711 (716).

Rand (1960: 359) explained that the original spelling of the species name was excubitoroides , but prior to Neumann’s description of intercedens had been emended to excubitorius , the original spelling differing by only one letter from Lanius excubitorides Swainson, 1831 , and considered the same at that time. Rand reinstated the original spelling, in agreement with the Code in effect in 1960.