Ploceus rubiginosus cinnamominus Hartert

Ploceus rubiginosus cinnamominus Hartert, 1907b: 11 (Kimukua, Mossamedes, South Angola).

Now Ploceus rubiginosus trothae Reichenow, 1905 . See Hartert, 1919: 140; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 50; Dickinson, 2003: 722; Fry and Keith, 2004: 177–179; and Craig, 2010: 158–159.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 724289, adult male, collected at Kimakua (= Kimukua), Huíla, southern Angola, on 14 March 1906, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 1436). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Ansorge’s unique number of the holotype in the original description and referred to both males and females. He gave the range as ‘‘Mossamedes and Benguella, apparently also Damaraland’ ’ (citing literature) in southern Angola. The following specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and are paratypes: Benguela, Kalahanga, AMNH 724287 (Ansorge no. 413), female, AMNH 724288 (412) male, 7 February 1905; Huíla, Kimakua, AMNH 727290–727295 (426, 427, 428, remainder without numbers), males, 14 March 1906; Malambelo, AMNH 727296 (610), male [immature], 29 April 1906; Chahivi, AMNH 727297 (–), male [immature], AMNH 727298 (615), AMNH 727299 (–), females, all 30 April 1906.

Dean (2000: 378) noted that Kimakua was between Cahama, 16.17S, 14.18E, and Humbe, 16.40S, 14.55E, now in Huíla Province. The date of publication of cinnamominus was mistakenly given as 1908 by Moreau and Greenway (1962: 50).