Pinarochroa sordida djamdjamensis Neumann

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 20-21

Pinarochroa sordida djamdjamensis Neumann

Pinarochroa sordida djamdjamensis Neumann, 1905: 79 (Abera in Djamdjam).

Now Cercomela sordida sordida (Rüppell, 1837) . See Ripley, 1964: 103, and Keith et al., 1992: 543.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 582488 , adult male, collected at Abera, 068279N, 388289E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.), Ethiopia, on 19 December 1900, by Oscar Neumann (no. 443). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann (1905: 79) listed the type as a male, collected at Abera on 19 November 1900, giving measurements for more than one specimen. In a later paper, Neumann (1906b: 291–293) listed his three specimens, only one having been collected on 19 November, thus confirming the above specimen as the holotype (it is marked ‘‘typus’’ in Neu­ mann’s hand). Another of his three specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 582489, a male collected at Abera on 16 December 1900, Neumann no. 425, is a paratype. The third Neumann specimen (whereabouts unknown) and the four von Erlanger specimens listed by Neumann (1906b: 292, not in ZMB, F. Steinheimer, personal commun.) are also paratypes.

For this subspecies, as for the previous one, Neumann’s (1906b: 291) later paper is sometimes cited as the original description.

Neumann (1902) gave a map of his travels in 1900–1901.