Tarsiger ruwenzorii Ogilvie­Grant, 1906

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Tarsiger ruwenzorii Ogilvie­Grant

Tarsiger ruwenzorii Ogilvie­Grant, 1906: 33 (East Ruwenzori, 6000–9000 ft.).

Now Pogonocichla stellata ruwenzorii (Ogilvie­ Grant, 1906). See Keith et al., 1992: 388.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 608589 , adult male, collected on Ruwenzori East, 6500 ft, on 8 January 1906 by G. Legge (no. 2069) ; and AMNH 608590 , adult female, collected on Ruwenzori East, 6000 ft, on 3 January 1906, by Douglas Carruthers (no. 1090). From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: In the original description, Ogilvie­Grant did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had, but he later ( Ogilvie­Grant, 1910: 394) listed specimens ‘‘a–o’’ with field numbers. The two field numbers given above are among those with a small ‘‘d’’ above the number. Ogilvie­Grant (1910: 262) said, ‘‘In the lists of specimens procured by the Expedition the letter ‘d.’ placed over some of the collectors’ numbers indicates that those examples were duplicates not retained in the series kept for the British Museum.’’ They were, however, presumably studied by Ogilvie­Grant when he named the taxon, though they were not previously recognized as syntypes in the AMNH collection. Warren and Harrison (1971: 484) listed only two syntypes in BMNH.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 533) treated Pogonocichla in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 674) placed the genus in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Stiphrornis sanghensis Beresford and Cracraft

Stiphrornis sanghensis Beresford and Cracraft,

1999: 8 (Dzanga­Sangha Dense Forest Reserve

(28559N, 168159E, ca. 1 km north of Bayanga,

Sangha­Mbaèré Prefecture), Central African

Republic).

Now Stiphrornis sanghensis Beresford and Cra­

craft, 1999.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 832121 , adult male, collected in the Dzanga­Sangha Dense Forest Reserve , 028559N, 168159E, ca. 1 km north of Bayanga, Sangha­Mbaèré Prefecture, Central African Republic, on 13 June 1998, by Pamela Beresford (no. 120), prepared by Joel Cracraft.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 831845–831848 , 832116–832120 , and 832122–832128, all studyskins ; AMNH 24731 , 24732 , and 24869–24871, all skeletons ; and AMNH 10836 and 10863, spirit specimens. Mitochondrial DNA analysis was included in the original description of this phylogenetic species .

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 531) treated the genus Stiphrornis in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 674) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .

Callene sokokensis van Someren

Callene sokokensis van Someren, 1921: 125 (Sokoke Forest, coast of B[ritish] E[ast] A[frica]).

Now Sheppardia gunningi sokokensis ( van Someren, 1921) . See Keith et al., 1992: 402.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 580019 , adult female, collected in the Sokoke Forest , 038309S, 398509E ( Polhill, 1988: 358), Kenya, on 21 January 1921. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type, with the above data, was in the Rothschild Collection and that he examined three specimens. AMNH 580019 is the only specimen of sokokensis that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and it bears the Rothschild type label. The only other label is a field label. Hartert (1928: 216) noted that the specimen was collected by van Someren’s collectors.

Louette et al. (2002: 35) noted that one of the paratypes is RMCA 98318 , but they did not accept a specimen, collected on 17 May 1921, as a second paratype because of the impossibility of a specimen from Kenya reaching England before the 26 May publication date. However, they mentioned the ‘‘improbable scenario whereby the manuscript was prepared by van Someren [in Kenya] and transmitted to London by cable between 17 and 26 May 1921 ’’. This might have occurred, as the descriptions of the new forms introduced by van Someren at the 11 May meeting (published 26 May) were communicated by Ernst Hartert ; but he only exhibited ‘‘a new Euprinodes ’’ (see title of van Someren, 1921). That being the case, the existence of the specimen collected on 17 May could have been cabled to Hartert and added to the manuscript before publication.

See Roy et al. (2001) for recent molecular studies of Sheppardia , including S. gunningi . Sibley and Monroe (1990: 531) treated the genus Sheppardia in the tribe Saxicolini , subfamily Muscicapinae ; Dickinson (2003: 675) placed it in the subfamily Saxicolinae , family Muscicapidae .