Amblyospiza albifrons montana van Someren

Amblyospiza albifrons montana van Someren, 1921c: 122 (Fort Hall, Kikuyu Mts.) .

Now Amblyospiza albifrons montana van Someren, 1921 . See Hartert, 1928: 193; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 31; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 533; Dickinson, 2003: 719; Fry and Keith, 2004: 198–201; and Craig, 2010: 138–139.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 725323, adult male, collected at Saba Saba, 00.47S, 36.55E– 00.49S, 37.18E (Polhill, 1988), near Fort Hall, Kikuyu Mountains, Kenya, on 25 April 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated a specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data as the holotype of montana. He gave the range as Kikuyu, Nairobi, Kisumu, etc., but did not enumerate his paratypes. I have considered as paratypes only the two additional specimens of montana in AMNH that had been part of the V.G.L. van Someren Collection: AMNH 725335, female, Nairobi, 13 December 1917; AMNH 725345, unsexed [♂], Kisumu, 9 July 1912. There are two paratypes in RMCA (Louette et al., 2002: 75).