Anthreptes collaris somereni Chapin

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 : 133-134

Anthreptes collaris somereni Chapin

Anthreptes collaris somereni Chapin, 1949: 83 (Anda, Lake Azingo, Gaboon).

Now Hedydipna collaris somereni ( Chapin, 1949) . See Rand, 1967: 219, Fry et al., 2000: 219–221, 224, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 253–254.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 685944 , adult male, collected at Anda , Lake Azingo, 00.35S, 10.02E ( Dean et al., 2003: 245), Gabon (5 Gaboon), on 20 December 1907, by W.J. Ansorge. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Chapin cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of his new subspecies as ‘‘ From the coast of the Cameroon and Gaboon eastward to the Uelle , Ituri , and Manyema districts of the Belgian Congo, southward to Canhoca and Roca Congulu in Ang [o]la, and Tshisika in the southern Kasai District.’’ The following AMNH specimens are paratypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Ituri District , AMNH 161671– 161689 , 263800 , 263801 , 448536 , 12 males, three immature males, five females, two immature females ; Lukolela, Congo River , AMNH 297128 , juvenile ; Kassai District , AMNH 258618–258625 , AMNH 685933– 685941 , 10 males and seven females ; Guanza River , Angola, AMNH 685916 , male ?; Canhoca , Angola, AMNH 685917–685931 , five males, one male juvenile, eight females, one female juvenile ; Gabon, Ogowe River area , AMNH 685942 , 685943 , 685945–685955 , seven males and six females ; Cameroon, AMNH 685956–685958 , two males and one female. Of these, AMNH 161673 was mounted for display, and I did not find AMNH 685945 and 685952, a male and a female from the Ogowe River , in the collection .

Most recent authors have placed Anthreptes collaris in the genus Hedydipna . Mann and Cheke (2006: 199–200) noted that the generic name Anthodiaeta has ‘‘position precedence’’ (ICZN, 1999: 73, Recommendation 69A.10), and Cheke and Mann (2008a: 253–254) have used that generic name. However, Wolters (1979: 275) used Hedydipna , listing Antho-

diaeta as a synonym, thus serving as first revisor (ICZN, 1999: 30, Art. 24.2.3).