Lagonosticta senegalla (sic) kikuyuensis van Someren

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 : 90

Lagonosticta senegalla (sic) kikuyuensis van Someren

Lagonosticta senegalla (sic) kikuyuensis van Someren, 1919: 55 (Nairobi) .

Now Lagonosticta senegala ruberrima, Reichenow, 1903 . See van Someren, 1922: 164; Hartert, 1928: 196; Mayr et al., 1968: 327; Dickinson, 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 360–364; and Payne, 2010: 337–338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451168 , adult female, collected at Nairobi , 01.17S, 36.50E (Times atlas), Kenya, on 17 February 1917. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that his female type from Nairobi, collected on 17 February 1917, was in the Rothschild Collection; he did not say how many specimens he examined, but noted that males of kikuyuensis did not differ from ruberrima. The above holotype is the only female van Someren specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection .