Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Author Pachycephalidae Author Aegithalidae Author Remizidae Author Paridae Author Sittidae Author Neosittidae Author Certhiidae Author Rhabdornithidae Author Climacteridae Author Dicaeidae Author Pardalotidae Author Nectariniidae, And Author Lecroy, Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org) text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 journal article 0003-0090 Nectarinia pulchella aegra Hartert Nectarinia pulchella aegra Hartert, 1921a: 122 (Timia) . Now Cinnyris pulchellus pulchellus (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Fry et al., 2000: 258–261, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 283 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 690868 , adult male, collected at Timia , 3800 ft , 18.09N , 08.46E ( Times Atlas ), Azbine , Niger ( 5 Asben ( Aïr ), French West Africa , as on label), on 21 June 1920 , by A. Buchanan (no. 688). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as his holotype Buchanan’s specimen no. 688, and listed a type series of 14 specimens . The holotype bears Buchanan’s original label, marked ‘‘ Type ,’’ and Rothschild Collection and type labels. The paratypes , all collected in 1920, are: Farniso , near Kano , Nigeria , AMNH 690846 (Buchan- an no. 185), male, AMNH 690847 (186), female ; Zinder , Niger , AMNH 690848 (375), AMNH 690849 (374), males, AMNH 690850 (209), female ; Agades , Niger , AMNH 690855 (727), male, AMNH 690856 (499), female ; Azzal , Niger , AMNH 690857 (731), AMNH 690858 (732), males, AMNH 690859 (742), female ; Timia , Niger , AMNH 690869 (689), male, AMNH 690870 (695), AMNH 690871 (690), females. Other specimens collected by Buchanan were from later expeditions .