Oenanthe leucopyga aegra Hartert, 1913

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 leucopyga aegra Hartert

Oenanthe leucopyga aegra Hartert, 1913: 55 (Gara Klima) .

Now Oenanthe leucopyga aegra Hartert, 1913 . See Keith et al., 1992: 502.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 583471 , adult male, collected at Gara Klima , near Ouargla, 328009N, 058169E (Times Atlas), Algeria, on 10 March 1912, by Ernst Hartert and Carl Hilgert (no. 206). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description. Hartert (1913: 6) described Gara Klima as a flat­topped mountain some 12 km from Ouargla, with Gara meaning flat­topped hills or mountains that are the remains of higher plateaus ( Hartert, 1913: 1). Hartert (1920: 470) spelled this locality ‘‘Jara Krima’’.

The type series of this form, including the holotype, comprised 13 adult males and 7 adult females listed by Hartert, as well as 2 immatures that were collected by Hartert and Hilgert on the same trip. Immatures were routinely omitted by Hartert when listing specimens. There are now 18 paratypes in AMNH, including the two immatures: AMNH 583465–583470 and 583472– 583483.

Ripley (1964: 130) synonymized aegra with O. l. leucopyga .