Ploceus insignis frater Neumann

Ploceus insignis frater Neumann, 1908c: 12 (90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward).

Now Ploceus insignis (Sharpe, 1891) . See Hartert, 1919: 138; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 56; Dickinson, 2003: 723; Fry and Keith, 2004: 186– 187; and Craig, 2010: 189.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722812, adult female, collected in primary forest 90 km west of Lake Edward (= Albert Edward), 00.05N to 00.41S, 29.18E to 29.53E (Chapin, 1954a), Congo (Kinshasa), on 16 February 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (2055). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as the type a specimen in the Rothschild Collection with the above data, and gave the range as the country west of Lake Albert Edward. There are two additional specimens in AMNH collected by Grauer in the same locality, and they are considered paratypes: AMNH 722813 (Grauer no. 2064), female, 17 February 1908; AMNH 722814 (2038), male [immature], 14 February 1908. I did not find AMNH 722813 in the collection.