Oenanthe moesta brooksbanki Meinertzhagen, 1923

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 : 27

Oenanthe moesta brooksbanki Meinertzhagen

Oenanthe moesta brooksbanki Meinertzhagen, 1923: 147 (near El Jid, long. 408E., lat. 338 N., Northern Arabian Desert).

Now Oenanthe moesta brooksbanki Meinertzhagen, 1923 . See Cramp, 1988: 84, and Dickinson, 2003: 684.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 583331 , adult male, collected near Al Jid , Iraq, on 30 October 1922 by Col. Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Meinertzhagen said that the type was in the Rothschild Collection, with data as above. AMNH 583331 is the only Meinertzhagen specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, although his type series comprised five males and two females. It bears the Rothschild type label and is labeled ‘‘type’’ in Meinertzhagen’s hand.

Meinertzhagen (1924: 616) noted that his type locality was within political Iraq. The wells of Al Jid are shown at ca. 328409N, 398359E in the Times Atlas.