Ploceus graueri Hartert

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 : 23

Ploceus graueri Hartert

Ploceus graueri Hartert, 1911b: 21 (Usumbura) .

Now Ploceus cucullatus graueri Hartert, 1911 . See Hartert, 1919: 139; van Someren, 1922a: 141; Chapin, 1954b: 358–359; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 47; Dickinson, 2003: 721; Fry and Keith, 2004: 164–170; and Craig, 2010: 165–166.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 723898 , adult male, collected at Usumbura , 03.23S, 29.21E ( Chapin, 1954a), Burundi, on 31 March 1902, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 2239). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Grauer’s field number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had collected a series at Usumbura, one on the northwest shore of Lake Tanganyika and one at Mtagata in Karagwe. Paratypes in AMNH with Grauer field numbers in parentheses are: Usumbura, AMNH 723899 (2238), male, 31 March ; AMNH 723900 (2310), male, 9 April ; AMNH 723901 (2246), male, 1 April ; AMNH 723902 (2289), female, 7 April ; AMNH 723903 (2253), female, 2 April ; AMNH 723904 (2378), female, 16 April ; AMNH 723905 (2188), female [male plumage], 21 March ; AMNH 723906 (2240), female, 31 March ; AMNH 723907 (2234) female, 30 March ; AMNH 723908 (2203), female, 24 March, all collected in 1908. Mtagata, AMNH 723919 (289), female [male plumage] 30 May 1907. Northwest coast of Tanganyika (Nordwest ufer des Tanganyika ), AMNH 723891 (2612), male, 8 May 1908 ; this last specimen is the only one from that locality collected in May 1908, the others having been collected later.

Most recent authors have recognized graueri as a subspecies of P. cucullatus , but Craig (2010: 165) synonymized it with nominate cucullatus .