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Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin 1932

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin

Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin, 1932: 16 (at 9000 feet on Mt. Kandashomwa, west of Ruzizi Valley).

Now Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin, 1932. See Fry et al., 2000: 254, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 279.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 410078, adult male, collected on Mt. Kandashomwa, 9000 ft, 03.04S, 28.52E (Chapin, 1954: 673), west of the Ruzizi River, Congo (Kinshasa), on 9 July 1929, by J. Sterling Rockefeller on the American Museum Tanganyika Expedition of 1928–1929 (no. 766).

COMMENTS: Chapin cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had a second male. The paratype is AMNH 410079, male, collected on 10 July 1929 at the same locality by Charles B.G. Murphy (no. 769).

Notes

Published as part of 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:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 145

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References

  • Chapin, J. P. 1932. Fourteen new birds from tropical Africa. American Museum Novitates 570: 1 - 18.
  • Cheke, R. A., and C. F. Mann. 2008 a. Family Nectariniidae (sunbirds). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 196 - 320. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Chapin, J. P. 1954. The birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: ix + 846 pp., 27 pls.