Nigrita dohertyi

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COMMENTS: In the original description Hartert did not designate a type, saying only that Doherty had collected ‘‘ a series’ ’; four specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1919 a: 144), by noting that the type was a male collected in March at 8500 ft, designated as lectotype the only specimen with those data, now AMNH 727970. It bears a Rothschild type label. The paralectotypes are: Escarpment, AMNH 727971, adult male, March 1901, 8000 ft; AMNH 727972, adult male, January 1901, 8500 ft; AMNH 727973, female, February 1901, 8500 ft. In his moving memorial to Doherty, Hartert (1901 c: 503 – 504) quoted from Doherty’s letters concerning his whereabouts at the time his last collections were made and (Hartert, 1902 g: 620) made further comments about the ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’ locality. The ‘‘ Escarpment’ ’ of Doherty’s collecting was on the eastern side of the Rift Valley and was not the ‘‘ Mau Escarpment, ’’ as reported in the original description of this form, which is on the western side. Doherty was in the Kikuyu Mountains near the Escarpment station of the Uganda Railroad at 01.01 S, 36.37 E (Polhill, 1988), which was about ‘‘ halfway between Ft. Smith (Nairobi) and Naivasha station’ ’ and was ‘‘ in October 1900 the terminus of the railway. ’’