Lonchura pallidiventer Restall, 1996

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 : 117

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612005
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scientific name	Lonchura pallidiventer Restall
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Lonchura pallidiventer Restall View in CoL

Lonchura pallidiventer Restall, 1996: 137 View in CoL (Jakarta, apparently from south-east Kalimantan, Indonesia).

Now considered a hybrid Lonchura punctulata View in CoL x L. leucogastra View in CoL . See van Balen, 1998: 118–119; LeCroy, 1999: 219; Smythies, 2000: 617; and Dickinson, 2003: 735; fn. 8.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 831287 About AMNH , unsexed, purchased in Jakarta, Indonesia (but said to be from southeast Kalimantan, Indonesia), by R. Restall.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The second specimen, listed as the ‘‘syntype’’ is a paratype, AMNH 831288 About AMNH (not 8311288) ; it is a mummy and also unsexed. Two other birds are illustrated and said to be from among five observed in a dealer’s possession. The colors in Restall (1997: 32, pl. 5) are quite different from the color of the two specimens.