Urobrachya phoenicea quanzae Hartert

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 : 29

Urobrachya phoenicea quanzae Hartert

Urobrachya phoenicea quanzae Hartert, 1903b: 56 (Barraca, on the Quanza River).

Now Euplectes axillaris quanzae ( Hartert, 1903) . See Hartert, 1919: 145; Traylor, 1962: 125–126; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 70; Craig, 1993b: 143–145; Dean, 2000: 318–319; Dickinson, 2003: 725; Fry and Keith, 2004: 242–244; and Craig, 2010: 150.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 726822 , adult male, collected at Barraca , 09.11S, 13.58E ( Dean, 2000: 370), Cuanza (= Quanza) River, Angola, on 28 May 1901, by C. Hubert Pemberton (no. 561). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert had the single specimen when he described quanzae.

Moreau and Greenway (1962: 70), Dean (2000: 318–319) and Dickinson (2003: 725) recognized quanzae as a subspecies of Eu- plectes axillaris , but Traylor (1962: 125) called attention to the larger size of specimens from the Cuanza River and raised the possibility that quanzae should perhaps be considered a full species. Craig (1993b: 144), Fry and Keith (2004: 243) and Craig (2010: 150) synonymized it with E. axillaris bocagei (Sharpe, 1871) .