Cinnyris Afer

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 144

Cinnyris Afer (sic) Prigoginei Macdonald

Cinnyris Afer (sic) Prigoginei Macdonald, 1958: 9 (Sambwe, Marungu highlands, 6100 ft.).

Now Cinnyris prigoginei Macdonald, 1958 . See Fry et al., 2000: 244–245, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 277.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 289664 , adult male, collected at Sambwe, 07.36S, 29.52E ( Chapin, 1954: 723), Marungu highlands, 6100 ft, Congo (Kinshasa), on 28 February 1929, by Allan L. Moses on the American Museum Tanganyika Expedition 1928–1929 (no. 298).

COMMENTS: Macdonald cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that his specimens were those mentioned by J.P. Chapin and H. Schouteden. Chapin (1954: 248) recorded three specimens collected on the AMNH Tanganyika Expedition and Schouteden (1949: 164) referred to specimen(s) obtained by deWitte at Kasiki. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 289665, adult male, Pandi, Marungu highlands, 6100 ft, 1 May 1929, collected by J.S. Rockefeller (no. 626); AMNH 289666, female, Matafali, Marungu highlands, 6225 ft, 27 April 1929, A.L. Moses (no. 621). There are two paratypes in MRAC ( Louette et al., 2002: 62–63).