Galerida theklae hilgerti Rothschild and Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 25

Galerida theklae hilgerti Rothschild and Hartert

Galerida theklae hilgerti Rothschild and Hartert, 1912a: 492 (El Kantara) .

Now Galerida malabarica superflua Hartert, 1897 . See Peters, 1960a: 62, and Keith et al., 1992: 103.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558127 , adult male, collected at El Kantara, 35°13′N, 05°40′E (Times Atlas), Algeria, on 2 March 1909, by Walter Rothschild , Ernst Hartert , and Carl Hilgert (no. 42). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The field no. 42 was cited in the original description. Rothschild and Hartert (1912a: 492, 494) stated that they had at least 50 specimens collected at various localities by their expedition or by Flückiger. Thirty­eight of these specimens, excluding the type, collected before 1912, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. These paratypes are AMNH 558112, 558113, 558122, 558125, 558126, 558128–558137, 558139–558154, and 558158– 558164.

Peters (1960a: 62) and Cramp (1988: 163) treated superflua as a subspecies of Galerida theklae . Sibley and Monroe (1990: 655) treated malabarica and theklae as species in the superspecies malabarica .

This description is in volume 18, no. 3 of Novitates Zoologicae, published on 31 January 1912.