Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren

Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren, 1921b: 114 (Lumbo, Portuguese E. Africa).

Now Passer diffusus mosambicus van Someren, 1921 . See Hartert, 1928: 198; Dickinson, 2003: 717; Fry and Keith, 2004: 7–9; and Summers- Smith, 2009: 803–804.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719795, adult female, collected at Lumbo, 15.00S, 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique (= Portuguese East Africa), on 13 July 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Van Someren designated the holotype in the original description and said that he had six specimens from northern Mozambique and eastern Nyasaland. The type is the only van Someren specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.