Sporopipes frontalis loitanus van Someren, 1919: 54 (Loita) Sporopipes frontalis emini Neumann, 1900 Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30 Zimmerman et al., 1999: 533 Dickinson, 2003: 719 Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65 Craig, 2010: 137 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 Lecroy, Mary Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 van Someren van Someren [723,1206,910,933] Aves Ploceidae Sporopipes Animalia Passeriformes 17 17 Chordata subSpecies frontalis loitanus      Sporopipes frontalis loitanus van Someren, 1919: 54(Loita).  Now  Sporopipes frontalis eminiNeumann, 1900. See  Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30;  Zimmerman et al., 1999: 533;  Dickinson, 2003: 719;  Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65; and  Craig, 2010: 137.    HOLOTYPE:  AMNH 722610, adult female (not male, as in original description), collected at Loita, ca. 01.40S, 35.40E( Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on  8 July 1918. Fromthe V.G.L. van Someren Collectionvia the Rothschild Collection.   COMMENTS: Inthe original description, van Somerensaid that the type, with the above data, was in the Rothschild Collectionand that 18 specimenswere collected. Fouradditional specimens from the V.G.L. van Someren Collection, collected before the publication of loitanus, came to AMNH. I consider them paratypes: Loita,  AMNH 722609, male,  10 July 1918, collected by A. Blayney Percival;  Kacheliba,  AMNH 722617, male,  AMNH 722618, female,  11 June 1917;  Maktau,  AMNH 722619, male,  23 June 1918. Hartert did not list this holotypein any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.  PLOCEINAE 3059913800 1918-07-08 AMNH Kenya -1.4 Loita 785 35.4 17 17 AMNH 722610 1 holotype 3059913627 1918-07-10 AMNH A. Blayney Percival 17 17 AMNH 722609 18 paratype 3059913861 1917-06-11 AMNH Kacheliba 17 17 AMNH 722617, AMNH 722618 1 3059913409 1918-06-23 AMNH Maktau 17 17 AMNH 722619 1 holotype