Sitagra luteola kavirondensis van Someren

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 19

Sitagra luteola kavirondensis van Someren

Sitagra luteola kavirondensis van Someren, 1921c: 123 (Soronko River) .

Now Ploceus luteolus (Lichtenstein, 1823) . See van Someren, 1922a: 140; Hartert, 1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 37; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 111–112; and Craig, 2010: 170.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 723343 , adult male, collected on the Soronko River , 01.10N,

34.28E to 01.38N, 34.04E ( Chapin, 1954a), Uganda, on 28 April 1916. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type of kavirondensis a male in the Rothschild Collection collected on the Soronko River , on 28 April 1916. The above specimen is the only one with those data and it bears a Rothschild type label. Van Someren had eight male and four female specimens from the Soronko River , S. Kerio, Kacheliba, Kisumu, Kibigori, and Entebbe. The following paratypes, all from the van Someren Collection, are in AMNH: Kerio, AMNH 723341 , male, 2 June 1917; Soronko River , AMNH 723344 , female, 28 April 1916 ; Kibigori, AMNH 723345 , male, 24 August 1918. AMNH 723342 collected at Bukedi, Elgon Plains , a locality not included in the range given by van Someren, and AMNH 723340 , collected at Entebbe on an unknown date by Grauer, are not considered paratypes .

Fry and Keith (2004: 111) and Craig (2010: 170) synonymized kavirondensis with P. luteolus which they considered monotypic.