Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula

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 : 95-96

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627385
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scientific name	Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula
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Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula C.N.M. White

Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula C.M.N. White, 1946: 218 (Balovale).

Now Ortygospiza atricollis muelleri Zedlitz, 1911 . See White, 1963: 209; Mayr et al., 1968: 350– 351; Dickinson, 2003: 731; Fry and Keith, 2004: 383–386; and Payne, 2010: 300–301.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348055 View Materials , adult male, collected at Balovale , 13.30S, 23.06E (Times atlas), Zambia, on 19 September 1943, by C.M.N. White. View Materials GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, White said that the type was in his collection, a male collected on 19 September 1943 at Balovale, and that he examined 9 specimens. AMNH 348055 View Materials , bearing White’s type label, was donated to AMNH with four additional specimens from the type series. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 348056 View Materials , male, Balovale, 11 July [1943] ; AMNH 348057 View Materials , female, north of Boma , Balovale, 29 July 1943 ; AMNH 348058 View Materials , male, Ndungu , Balovale, 28 July 1943 ; AMNH 348059 View Materials , male, Ndungu , Balovale, 1 August 1943 .

Fry and Keith (2004: 383–386) considered muelleri a subspecies of the separate species O. fuscocrissa , but Payne (2010: 300–301) gave reasons for combining fuscocrissa with O. atricollis , pending further study. He considered minuscula intermediate between muelleri and fuscata but synonymized it with muelleri.