Melanocharis van, Someren

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 63

van Someren

Anthoscopus rocatti (sic) taruensis van Someren, 1921: 112 (Samburu) .

Now Anthoscopus caroli robertsi Haagner, 1909 . See Fry et al., 2000: 112–115, and Madge, 2008: 72–73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683344 , adult female, collected at Samburu, 03.47S, 39.17E (Times Atlas), Kenya, on 25 July 1918, by collectors for V.G. L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type, in the Rothschild Collection, was obtained at Samburu on 25 July 1918. The field label is marked ‘‘ Type,’’ it bears a Rothschild type label, and was listed by Hartert (1928a: 209) as the type. It is the only van Someren specimen of taruensis that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The range of taruensis given by van Someren as ‘‘coast of British East Africa to Taru Desert’’ implies that the collecting locality of the type was at the Samburu given above and not at the game reserve at ca. 00.40N, 37.30E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.)