Macronyx aurantiigula Reichenow, 1891a: 222

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

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scientific name	Macronyx aurantiigula Reichenow, 1891a: 222
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Macronyx aurantiigula Reichenow, 1891a: 222 View in CoL .

Now: Macronyx aurantiigula Reichenow, 1891a . See Mayr & Greenway (1960: 143).

Syntype: ZMB 49.240 View Materials ( Fischer no. 651), skin, collected at Maurui [Maurui, Tanga Region, Tanzania], 18.01.[18]83 .

Syntype (missing): Fischer no. 964, juvenile male, “Ebene unweit des Maeru-Berges”, 22.07.[1883].

Possible Syntype: RMNH. AVES.258114, skin, male, collected at Pangani River , arrived from Berlin in 1892 .

Type locality: “Hab. Africa orientalis ad flumen Pangani” [northeast Tanzania close to the Pangani River ] [Tanga Region, Tanzania], from the original description and localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for more than one specimen and the locality “Ost-Afrika bis zum Pangani Fluss” were given. Fischer (1884) listed nos. 651 and 964 as Macronyx croceus (Vieillot) . In the original description Reichenow (1891) mentioned that M. aurantiigula is similar to M. croceus . Therefore, Fischer nos. 651 and 964 are regarded as syntypes. In addition, RMNH. AVES.258114 was given as syntype for this species in Dekker (2003), but it cannot be no. 964 which is not a juvenile (Dekker, pers. comm.). Therefore it is uncertain whether RMNH. AVES.258114 is a further syntype, as detailed collecting information is missing. Three further Fischer specimens of this species in the Berlin collection (ZMB 2000.11019, ZMB 2000.11020, ZMB 2000.11021) have merely “ Tanzania ” as the collecting locality and no date, so are not regarded as types. Reichenow (1904b) also listed for Macronyx aurantiigula material of Fischer from Maurui (January) and “Meruberg” [Mount Meru] (July), the latter information refers to the missing syntype.