Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae Author LeCroy, Mary text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 2013-09-26 2013 381 1 155 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/832.1 journal article 7647 10.1206/832.1 85bd2c66-f9f0-4172-8d82-2e8841cd354a 0003-0090 4611863 Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula C.N.M. White Ortygospiza atricollis minuscula C.M.N. White, 1946: 218 (Balovale). Now Ortygospiza atricollis muelleri Zedlitz, 1911 . See White, 1963: 209 ; Mayr et al., 1968: 350– 351 ; Dickinson, 2003: 731 ; Fry and Keith, 2004: 383–386 ; and Payne, 2010: 300–301 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 348055 , adult male, collected at Balovale , 13.30S , 23.06E (Times atlas), Zambia , on 19 September 1943 , by C.M.N. White. COMMENTS: In the original description, White said that the type was in his collection, a male collected on 19 September 1943 at Balovale, and that he examined 9 specimens . AMNH 348055 , bearing White’s type label, was donated to AMNH with four additional specimens from the type series. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 348056 , male, Balovale, 11 July [1943] ; AMNH 348057 , female, north of Boma , Balovale , 29 July 1943 ; AMNH 348058 , male, Ndungu , Balovale , 28 July 1943 ; AMNH 348059 , male, Ndungu , Balovale , 1 August 1943 . Fry and Keith (2004: 383–386) considered muelleri a subspecies of the separate species O. fuscocrissa , but Payne (2010: 300–301) gave reasons for combining fuscocrissa with O. atricollis , pending further study. He considered minuscula intermediate between muelleri and fuscata but synonymized it with muelleri .