Pytilia melba grotei Reichenow, 1919: 227

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 : 52-53

Pytilia melba grotei Reichenow, 1919: 227 .

Now: Pytilia melba grotei Reichenow, 1919 . See Blake et al. (1968: 314).

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20327 (Fischer no. 567), skin, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.1882 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20329 (Fischer no. 566), skin, female, collected in “Usegua”, 02.1882 .

Syntype: ZMB 31980 (Stuhlmann no. 415), skin, male, collected by F. Stuhlmann at “Kionga”, 02.1895 .

Syntype: ZMB 63.6 , skin, male, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 22.04.1909 .

Syntype: ZMB 66.703 , skin, female, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 02.1910 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20326 , skin, male, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 16.03.1909 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20328 , skin, male, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 02.1910 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20331 , skin, male, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 25.06.1909 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20332 , skin, female, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 24.04.1910 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.20333 , skin, collected by H. Grote at Mikindani, 06.06.1910 .

Type locality: “ Küstengebiet Deutsch-Ostafrikas” (= coastal regions of Tanzania from Tanga Region to Mozambique), from the original description and “Kionga” [Quionga Bay, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique], Mikindani [Mikindani, Mtwara Region, Tanzania] and “Usegua” [Useguha country, Tanga Region, Tanzania], the localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided; only the localities “Kionga”, Mikindani and Useguha were given. Therefore all listed specimens are regarded as syntypes. ZMB 2000.20327 and ZMB 2000.20329 were later also included in the type series for Pytelia melba useguhae Neunzig, 1928 (see below).