Urolestes aequatorialis Reichenow, 1887: 65

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 28

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scientific name	Urolestes aequatorialis Reichenow, 1887: 65
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Urolestes aequatorialis Reichenow, 1887: 65 .

Now: Urolestes melanoleucus aequatorialis ( Reichenow, 1887) . See Mayr & Greenway (1960: 342); White (1962b:40); Dickinson & Christidis (2014).

Holotype: ZMB 2000.35129 View Materials (Fischer no. 43), skin, female, collected at the “Gasa-Berge”, 24.09.[1885].

Paratype: ZMB 2000.32623 View Materials (Fischer no. 962), skin, female, juvenile collected at “Gross Aruscha”, 22.07.[18]83 .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.35126 View Materials (Böhm no. 993), skin, female, collected by R. Böhm at “Gonda”, 15.09.[18]82.

Paratype (missing): collected by J.H. Speke in Bogue country (East Africa), [October 1861] .

Type locality: “ Gasa-Berge” [ Gasa Mts , Dodoma Region, Tanzania], also the locality of the holotype .

Remarks: The original description clearly refers to one specimen “Das vorliegende Exemplar”, Fischer no. 43 (ZMB 2000.35129), which is thus regarded as the holotype. Subsequently other specimens were attributed to the described species [one collected by Fischer in “Aruscha” (ZMB 2000.32623) and one collected by Böhm at “Gonda” (ZMB 2000.35126)]. Furthermore, Reichenow includes the species Basanistes cissoides from Sclater (1864); when Sclater (1864: 109) presented the collection of Capt. J.H. Speke he mentioned one specimen from “Bogue” (East Africa) under the name Basanistes cissoides Lichtenstein, 1842 (nomen nudum). All these additional specimens are regarded as paratypes. Speke’s missing specimen is not housed at the BMNH, the AMNH or the World Museum Liverpool. Reichenow (1887) lists additional localities: “Soboro, Kagehi and Speke Golf”, all taken from Fischer’s diaries (observations). “Bogue” was a location in northwest Tanganyika ( Tanzania) that Speke passed through in Oct 1861 during his search for the source of the River Nile. It was west or southwest of Lake Victoria and south of Karagwe region. The name no longer exists today.