Nigrita dorsalis Reichenow, 1887: 71

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 47

Nigrita dorsalis Reichenow, 1887: 71 .

Now: Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis ( Reichenow, 1887) . See Amadon et al. (1962: 7).

Holotype: ZMB 30705 (Fischer no. 75), skin, male, collected in “Wembaere”, 24.10.[1885].

Type locality: “ Wembaere” [ Wembere steppe, Singida Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the information that the species was collected in the “Wembaere Steppe” on 24 October were given. An additional locality “Speke am Nassa Golf ” (Speke Gulf) was mentioned in Fischer’s diaries. As no other known Fischer specimens of this species from the Wembere Steppe would have been available to Reichenow in the Berlin collection, ZMB 30705 is regarded as holotype.

Fischer collected a number of specimens while crossing the Wembere floodplain in October 1885. His position on 24 October was approximately 4°30’S, 34°10’E.