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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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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journal article
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Ploceus Bohndorffi
Reichenow
Ploceus Bohndorffi
Reichenow, 1887: 214
(Stanley- Fälle).
Now
Ploceus cucullatus bohndorffi
Reichenow, 1887
. See
Hartert, 1919: 139
;
Chapin, 1954b: 351–355
;
Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 46
;
Dickinson, 2003: 721
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 164–170
; and
Craig, 2010: 165–166
.
SYNTYPE
(perhaps
holotype
):
AMNH 724091
, unsexed [adult male], collected at Stanley Falls,
00.18N
,
25.30E
(Times Atlas),
Congo
(
Kinshasa
), in March, by F. Bohndorff. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Reichenow did not give the sex of the bird he described or say how many specimens he examined, but he gave only one set of measurements and perhaps had only a single specimen.
Hartert (1919: 139)
also did not know how many specimens were involved in the original description as he referred to the above specimen as ‘‘
Type
(or cotype)’’; the only locality referred to was Stanley Falls. A second specimen collected by Bohndorff at Kasango in June is not considered part of the
type
series.
Most authors recognize the subspecies
bohndorffi
; however,
Craig (2010: 165)
synonymized it with nominate
cucullatus
.