Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 192

Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen

Tchitrea viridis harterti Meinertzhagen, 1923b: 158 ( 4000 feet, Wasil, Yemen).

Now Terpsiphone viridis harterti (Meinertzhagen, 1923) . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 289.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 652227 , adult male, collected at Wasil , 4000 ft, Yemen, on 25 February 1913, by G.W. Bury (no. 426). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Meinertzhagen designated as the holotype the only Bury specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected at Wasil on 25 February 1913. Meinertzhagen examined seven males of harterti , and females were also available to him from Yemen and Lahej. Only one male paratype is in AMNH: AMNH 652228 from Wasil. Two females and one unsexed specimen collected by Bury at Wasil or in ‘‘S. Arabia’’, and a female from Lahej, collected on the Percival/Dodson Expedition, would have been available to Meinertzhagen and are also paratypes: AMNH 652229–652232.

Bury ( in Sclater, 1917: 136) described Wasil as a ‘‘half-ruined caravanserai … perched on a spur of the main heights at 4200 feet’’, between Hajeilah and Menakha ( 5 Manākhah) at ca. 15.01N, 43.41E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.). It is shown on the map in Sclater (1917: opp. p. 131).