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
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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
)
.