Estrilda nigriloris Chapin, 1928

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 : 94

Estrilda nigriloris Chapin

Estrilda nigriloris Chapin, 1928: 1 (Kiabo, Lualaba River, Belgian Congo).

Now Estrilda nigriloris Chapin, 1928 . See Chapin, 1954b: 550–552; Mayr et al., 1968: 345; Dickinson, 2003: 731; Fry and Keith, 2004: 304–305; and Payne, 2010: 317–318.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 264515 , adult male, collected at Kiabo, 08.44S, 26.02E (Chapin, 1954), Lualaba River , southeastern Congo (Kinshasa) (5 Belgian Congo), on 10 August 1927, by James P. Chapin (no. 2623).

COMMENTS: Chapin cited his field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he collected two adult males and a female. The paratypes are: AMNH 264516, male, and AMNH 264517, female, collected at the type locality on the same day by Chapin (nos. 2624 and 2625, respectively).

Most authors have considered nigriloris a separate species; Payne (2010: 317–318) included it as a subspecies of E. astrild , noting that ‘‘Taxonomic status of nigriloris disputed and requires study.’’