Symplectes mentalis Hartlaub

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612178
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1926-FFCA-6AA7-90DA1F9EFD78
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scientific name	Symplectes mentalis Hartlaub
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Symplectes mentalis Hartlaub, 1891b: 314 (Buguéra) .

Now Ploceus bicolor mentalis ( Hartlaub, 1891) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1907a: 503; 1919: 139; Chapin, 1954: 373–374; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 54; Dickinson, 2003: 723; Fry and Keith, 2004: 183–186; and Craig, 2010: 181–182.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722773 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Bogoro (= Buguéra), 01.24N, 30.15E ( Chapin, 1954a), eastern Ituri district, Congo (Kinshasa), on 23 March 1889, by Emin Pasha (no. 1). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartlaub apparently had a single specimen; the measurements he published are those written by Emin on his field label.