Colius leucocephalus Reichenow, 1879b: 114

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 : 17

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scientific name	Colius leucocephalus Reichenow, 1879b: 114
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Colius leucocephalus Reichenow, 1879b: 114 View in CoL View at ENA .

Now: Colius leucocephalus leucocephalus Reichenow, 1879b . See Peters (1945: 146).

Holotype: ZMB 24267 View Materials (Fischer no. 362, ZMB B 15723 View Materials ), skin, male, collected at Kinakomba, 23.10.[1878].

Type locality: “ Kinakomba (Ostafrica)” [ Kinakomba , Tana River County, Kenya], from the original description and locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, nor were inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for just one specimen and the locality “Kinakomba (Ostafrica)” were given. Fischer & Reichenow (1879: 341) listed only one individual (no. 362) for this species; its measurements are identical to that in Reichenow (1879b), so it is regarded as the holotype. Another (now missing) specimen (no. 730) was collected later on the Ronga River ( Kenya, 1883) (Fischer 1884), too late to be included in the type series.