Anthoscopus ansorgei Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 63

Anthoscopus ansorgei Hartert

Anthoscopus ansorgei Hartert, 1905b: 74 (Mangonga River, Benguella).

Now Anthoscopus caroli ansorgei Hartert, 1905 . See Fry et al., 2000: 112–115, Dean, 2000: 266, and Madge, 2008: 72–73.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683385 , adult male, collected on the Mangonga River , 12.49S, 15.49E ( Chapin, 1954: 697), Huambo Province (labeled Benguela by Ansorge), Angola, on 15 December 1904, by William J. Ansorge (no. 912). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Ansorge’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and said only that Ansorge had collected a small series in Bié and Benguela, Angola, including male, female, and immature specimens. The Mangonga River locality is in what is now Huambo. Dean (2000: 381) did not list coordinates for the locality ; the above coordinates from Chapin are also within Huambo. Paratypes are: labeled Benguela Province by Ansorge, AMNH 683384 ( Ansorge no. 121), female, Fort Quillenges , 14 January 1905 ; AMNH 683386 (1), male, Losili River , 16 September 1904 ; AMNH 683387 (29), female, Wanbo , 18 September 1904 ; labeled Bié Province by Ansorge, AMNH 683388 (418), male, Bigando , 24 October 1904 ; AMNH 683389 (207), female, Fort Belmont ( Silva Porto ), 7 October 1904 ; AMNH 683390 (274), male, Caiala , 13 October 1904 ; AMNH 683391 (229), male, Caiala , 10 October 1904 ; AMNH 683392 (230), female, Caiala , 10 October 1904 ; AMNH 683393 (825), female, Caiala , 1 December 1904 ; AMNH 683394 (794), male, Chiyuka , 27 November 1904 ; and AMNH 683395 (479), male, Menjiri River (entering [?] bank of the Quanza River), 1 November 1904. Two additional Ansorge specimens are not considered paratypes: AMNH 683384 collected at Fort Quillenges , Benguela Province, on 7 January 1906, was collected after the publication of the name (5 June 1905) ; and AMNH 683396 , collected at Kaponzo (3rd day from Duque de Brangança ), on 11 September 1903, is in Malanje Province .