Monticola rufocinerea sclateri Hartert

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 29

Monticola rufocinerea sclateri Hartert

Monticola rufocinerea sclateri Hartert, 1917b: 459 (Wasil, 4000 ft.).

Now Monticola rufocinereus sclateri Hartert, 1917 . See Clement, 2000: 198.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 577456 , adult male, collected at Wasil , 4000 ft, Yemen, on 4 March 1913, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 475). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Bury’s field number of the type was given in the original description. Hartert had six males, including the type, and one female of sclateri. Of the six paratypes, four males and one female came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 577457–577461.

Dickinson (2003: 688) treated Monticola in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Bury (in Sclater, 1917: 136) described Wasil as a ‘‘half­ruined caravanserai...

perched on a spur of the main heights at 4200 feet’’, between Hajeilah and Menakha (5 Manaˉkhah), at ca. 15 8019N, 438419E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.). It is shown on the map in Sclater (1917: opposite p. 131).