Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis Neumann, 1905b: 356

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 : 57-58

Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis Neumann, 1905b: 356 .

Now: Crithagra citrinelloides kikuyensis (Neumann, 1905) . See Blake et al. (1968: 212).

Lectotype: AMNH SKIN 710620 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710613 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 10.1900 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710614 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 11.1900 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710615 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 11.1900 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710616 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 12.1900 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710617 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 01.1901 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710618 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 01.1901 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710619 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 03.1901 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710621 , skin, male, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710622 , skin, female, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 11.1900 .

Paralectotype: AMNH SKIN 710623 , skin, female, collected by W. Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains , 03.1901 .

Paralectotype: ZMB 27513 (B 18633, Fischer no. 864), skin, former mount, male, collected at “Naiwascha-See” (Lake Naivasha ), 12.06.1883 .

Type locality: Kikuyu mountains [Kikuyu Mts, Kiambu County, Kenya] and “Naiwascha-See” [Lake Naivasha, Nakuru Country, Kenya], from the original description, ascertained as the Kikuyu Mountains [Kikuyu Mts, Kiambu County, Kenya] the locality of the lectotype.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for the specimens listed, but six specimens from the Kikuyu Mountains collected by W. Doherty as well as one collected by G.A. Fischer at “Naiwascha-See” (Lake Naivasha) were mentioned and descriptions for males and females were given. LeCroy (2013) designated AMNH 710620 as lectotype and all the other above-mentioned specimens at the AMNH as paralectotypes. She mentions that Neumann (1905b) further included a Fischer specimen, and Kenya specimens collected by Lord Delamere which are here included in the list of paralectotypes. The AMNH specimens belonged to the Rothschild Collection, which were at Tring prior to being sold to the AMNH in the 1930s. The whereabouts of the paralectotypes collected by Lord Delamere are unknown. ZMB 27513, paralectotype in the taxon kikuyensis Neumann, was inventoried as Citrinella melanops Heuglin , also listed as a syntype for Spinus citrinelloides frontalis Reichenow , and was also mentioned in Reichenow (1904b: 275) as S. c. frontalis . Fischer was leaving the Naivasha area and was well to the south of the lake, between Hell’s Gate Gorge and Mount Suswa, on 12 June 1883. Any citril near Naivasha would be kikuyuensis not frontalis .