Quelea sanguineirostris

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 27

Quelea sanguineirostris [sic] centralis van Someren

Quelea sanguineirostris [sic] centralis van Someren, 1921c: 122 (Lake Albert Edward).

Now Quelea quelea aethiopica (Sundevall, 1850) . See van Someren, 1922a: 147; Hartert, 1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 62; Dickinson, 2003: 724; Fry and Keith, 2004: 207–212; and Craig, 2010: 139–140.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 725660 , adult female, collected on Izanga ( Izanja , as on label) Island, Lake Idi Amin Dada (= Lake Edward = Lake Albert Edward ), ca. 0025S, 29.30E ( Polhill, 1988), Uganda / Congo (Kinshasa) border, on 28 November 1910. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type of centralis a specimen with the above data in the Rothschild Collection. It is the only such specimen that came to AMNH. Van Someren (1922a: 3) gave the range of centralis as ‘‘ Lake districts of Central Africa , Uganda, Kivu, N. Tanganyika, Toro , Lake Albert Edward , Bukoba’ ’ without enumerating his specimens, but while he was writing this paper on East African birds, he had access to the Rothschild Collection. The following paratypes from that collection came to AMNH: Congo (Kinshasa), W of Lake Edward, AMNH 725661 , male, AMNH 725662 , female, 1 February 1908, R. Grauer ; Rutschuru Plain , AMNH 725663–725669 , six males, one female, 6 January–22 February 1908, R. Grauer. Uganda, Toro, Mponga forest, AMNH 725670 , female, undated, R. Grauer ; Toro , AMNH 725671 , male, AMNH 725672 , female, 7 June 1909, V.G.L. van Someren Collection. Tanzania, Urigi Lake, AMNH 725673–725681 , four males, five females, 3– 15 June 1907, R. Grauer ; Kissenji , Lake Kivu, AMNH 725682–725689 , three males, five females, 17 September–19 October 1907, R. Grauer ; Usumbura , Lake Tanganyika, AMNH 725690 , sex?, 26 April 1908, R. Grauer ; northwest of Lake Tanganyika , AMNH 725691–725693 , one male, two fe- males, 10–24 August 1908, R. Grauer. Ruzizi (= Russissi) River, border between Ruanda / Burundi and Congo (Kinshasa), AMNH 725694 , male, AMNH 725695 , female, 9, 17 May 1908, R. Grauer. There are three paratypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 78) .