Gymnoris pyrgita pallida Neumann

Gymnoris pyrgita pallida Neumann, 1908b: 70 (Shendy, White Nile).

Now Gymnoris pyrgita pallida Neumann, 1908 . See Hartert, 1919: 158; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 23; Dickinson, 2003: 718; Fry and Keith, 2004: 44–45; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 809.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 717616, adult male, collected at Shendi (= Shendy), 16.41N, 33.22E (Times Atlas), Nile River (not White Nile), Sudan, on 28 February (not 26 January) 1901, by N.C. Rothschild and A.F.R. Wollaston (no. 170). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Only two specimens of pallida collected before the publication of the name came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, even though measurements of one male and more than one female were given in the original description. The single male was designated the holotype in the original description. The paratype in AMNH is: AMNH 717617, unsexed, Shendi, Sudan, 28 February 1901, by Rothschild and Wollaston (no. 171). While this specimen was not sexed in the field, the Rothschild label, written by Hartert, is marked ‘‘ ♀!’’

The subspecies pallida is frequently includ- ed in the species xanthocollis, and both it and pyrgita may be included in the genus Petronia .