Hypargus (sic) monteiri

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 : 88

Hypargus (sic) monteiri ugandensis van Someren

Hypargus (sic) monteiri ugandensis van Someren, 1921a: 115 (Masindi).

Now Clytospiza monteiri (Hartlaub, 1860) . See Hartert, 1928: 195; Mayr, 1968: 322; Dickinson, 2003: 728; Fry and Keith, 2004: 348–349; and Payne, 2010: 334.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728085 , adult male, collected at Masindi, 01.41N, 31.43E ( Polhill, 1988), Bunyoro , Uganda, on 15 December 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as the type, in the Rothschild Collection, the only male specimen from Masindi collected on 15 December 1918. He listed a number of localities from which he examined specimens of ugandensis, without giving numbers or locations where the specimens were housed. The following are

considered paratypes of ugandensis: Masindi, AMNH 728086 , female, 15 December, 1918 ; Buzileranjovu , AMNH 728088 , female, 24 February 1912 ; Kyetume , AMNH 728090 , male, 30 April 1912, AMNH 728091 , female, 27 December 1911, all from the van Someren Collection ; Entebbe , AMNH 728093 , female, AMNH 728094 , male, no date but marked montieri by van Someren, both collected by R. Grauer ; Langomeri , AMNH 728096 , male, 15 August 1887, collected by Emin.