Sorella emini, van Someren

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 : 18-19

Otyphantes [sic] emini budongoensis

van Someren

Otyphantes [sic] emini budongoensis van Someren, 1921c: 123 (Busindi near Budongo).

Now Ploceus baglafecht emini ( Hartlaub, 1882) . See Hartert, 1928: 193; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 36; Dickinson, 2003: 719–720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 106–108; and Craig, 2010: 190.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 723062 , male, collected at Busindi , near Budongo, 01.39N, 31.35E ( Polhill, 1988), Uganda, on 7 June 1919. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type the single specimen with the above data in the Rothschild Collection. He did not enumerate his specimens but gave the range as Budongo, Masindi, and Bugoma. The following specimens from the van Someren Collection are paratypes: Busindi, AMNH 723063 , female, 7 June 1919; Masindi, AMNH 723064 , female, AMNH 723065 , female?, 17 December, 1918 ; Bugoma, AMNH 723066 , male, 27 June 1919. There are two paratypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 77) .