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 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.