Sporopipes frontalis pallidior Hartert, 1921

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 : 17

Sporopipes frontalis pallidior Hartert

Sporopipes frontalis pallidior Hartert, 1921: 136 (Zinder) .

Now Sporopipes frontalis frontalis (Daudin, 1800) . See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30; Dickinson, 2003: 719; Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65; and Craig, 2010: 137.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722589 , adult male, collected at Zinder, 13.46N, 08.58E ( Times Atlas ), southern Niger (= French West Africa , as on label), on 9 February 1920, by Angus Buchanan (no. 345). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Buchanan’s field number of the holotype and noted that he had eight specimens. The seven paratypes, all collected by Buchanan in 1920, are: Zinder, AMNH 722590 , immature male, 10 February ; AMNH 722591 , immature female, AMNH 722592 , adult female, 28 January. Takoukout, Damergou, AMNH 722597 , 722598 , males, 13 March ; AMNH 722599 , 722600 , females, 22 March .

The subspecies pallidior is usually synonymized with nominate frontalis , but it was recognized by Dickinson (2003: 719). It was not listed by Hartert in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.