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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Pyromelana franciscana pusilla Hartert Pyromelana franciscana pusilla Hartert, 1901c: 71 (Lake Stephanie) . Now Euplectes franciscanus (Isert, 1789) . See Zedlitz, 1916: 26–28 ; Hartert, 1919: 144 ; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 67–68 ; Craig, 1993a: 87–88 ; Dickinson, 2003: 725 ; Fry and Keith, 2004: 215–217 ; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 343 ; and Craig, 2010: 143–144 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 726383 , adult male, collected on 7 June 1895 , at Chew Bahir swamp (= Lake Stephanie ), 04.40N , 36.55E ( Ash and Atkins, 2009: 406 ), Ethiopia , by A. Donaldson Smith (no. 655). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: The male specimen from Chew Bahir swamp was designated the type by Hartert in the original description. In addition, he included a female with eggs paired with the above male and a male from Barri, Ethiopia (= Central Somaliland ) both collected by Donaldson Smith. Paratypes are, with Donaldson Smith’s field numbers in parentheses: Chew Bahir swamp, AMNH 726384 ( 654), female, 7 June 1895 ; Barri, AMNH 726384 (485), adult male, 11 January 1895 . Hartert’s pusillus is often recognized as a subspecies of Euplectes orix , but as long ago as Zedlitz (1916: 27) the variation was believed to be individual, and recent molecular data have not supported treatment of franciscanus as a subspecies of E. orix ( Craig, 2010: 143 ) .