Smithornis capensis meinertzhageni van Someren

Smithornis capensis meinertzhagenivan Someren

Smithornis capensis meinertzhageni van Someren, 1919: 24 (Nyarondo). Now Smithornis capensis meinertzhageni van Someren, 1919. See Keith et al., 1992: 8, and Lambert and Woodcock, 1996: 187. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 553272, sex not noted, collected at Nyarondo (= Lerundo), 00 09N, 34 51E (Chapin, 1954: 686), Kavirondo District, Kenya, on 11 March 1917, by H. J. Allen Turner. From the Meinertzhagen Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Nyarondo is the type locality given in the original description; Lerundo is the collecting locality given on the label. Hartert (1928: 224) gave the type locality as “Lerundo, Nyarondo.” R. Dowsett (in litt.) has pointed out to us that van Someren (1920: 95) equated the two localities in his description of Dicrurus elgonensis and that the coordinates cited above and given by Chapin for Lerundo are the correct ones. Dowsett (in litt.) also pointed out that Chapin (1954: 715) may have misread Nyando for Nyarondo, because the coordinates he gave for Nyarondo, 00 07S, 35 08E, are too far south and lie on the Nyando River. In the original description the sex was given as adult male. The sex is not noted on the original field label, although the specimen is in adult male plumage.