Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neumann, 1908

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 93

Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neumann

Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neumann, 1908: 96 (Que River, Benguella).

Now Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neumann, 1908 . See Hartert, 1919a: 148; Mayr et al., 1968: 340; Dickinson, 2003: 730; Fry and Keith, 2004: 292–293; and Payne, 2010: 315–316.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451748 , adult male, collected on the road to the Que River , 14.28S, 14.47E ( Dean, 2000: 384), Huíla (formerly part of Benguela), Angola, on 14 January 1906, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 78). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The type, said to be in the Rothschild Collection, was the single specimen collected by Ansorge on 14 January 1906. It is marked ‘‘Typus benguellensis’’ by Neumann and bears a Rothschild type label. Neumann noted that there were 12 examples in the Rothschild Collection in addition to the type, collected by Ansorge and C.H. Pemberton. The following 12 specimens are paratypes: N’gungo, AMNH 451749 , male, 9 August 1901, Pemberton ; Mucuio, AMNH 451751– 451754 , two males, two females, 9 August 1904, Ansorge ; Bingondo, AMNH 451755– 451760 , two males, four females, 23–24 October 1904, Ansorge ; Cambo Caquenge, AMNH 451761 , female, 27 October 1904. It is possible that Neumann meant that paratypes included 12 Ansorge specimens and one by Pemberton, but a 13th specimen ( AMNH 451762 , female, Luxillo, 31 October 1903, Ansorge) was not considered a paratype as it bore the name ‘‘ harterti ,’’ a name to which I could find no other reference, with ‘‘ benguellensis ’’ added, perhaps later .