Pytelia ansorgei Hartert

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 : 85

Pytelia ansorgei Hartert

Pytelia ansorgei Hartert, 1899d : xxvi (Wemo River, Toru, Uganda Protectorate).

Now Nesocharis ansorgei (Hartert, 1899) . See Hartert, 1900b: 25–53; Hartert, 1919a: 143; Mayr et al., 1968: 311; Dickinson, 2003: 727; Fry and Keith, 2004: 268–269; and Payne, 2010: 311.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451898 , adult male, collected on the Ruimi (5 Wimi, Wemo, or Wemi, as on labels) River, 00.26N, 30.00E– 00.20N, 30.17E ( Polhill, 1988), Toro (5 Toru), Uganda, on 21 April 1899, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 379). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but Hartert (1900b: 42) noted that Ansorge collected ‘‘one male in a wretched condition—the head smashed.’’ This specimen was collected on Ansorge’s third collecting trip, on which Hartert (1900b: 25–26) reported in detail, giving information on some of his collecting localities.