Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Steganura paradisea aucupum
Neumann
Steganura paradisea aucupum
Neumann, 1908a: 43
(
Diourbel
,
140 km
east of
Dakar
).
Now
Vidua orientalis aucupum
(Neumann, 1908)
. See
Hartert, 1919a: 146
;
Mayr et al., 1968: 396
;
Dickinson, 2003: 737
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 423– 424
; and
Payne, 2010: 222
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 452945
, adult male, collected at
Diourbel
,
14.39N
,
16.12W
(Times atlas),
Senegal
, on 8
October
(not August) 1907, by
F.W. Riggenbach
(no. 1638).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann noted that his type was a male, collected at
Diourbel
by Riggenbach, and in the Rothschild Collection, but he incorrectly transcribed the date as 8 ‘‘viii’’ 07. Riggenbach gave the date as ‘‘8 Octob. 07’’ on his label, however, some of the specimens collected in August are labeled ‘‘Août,’’ which might have led to a misreading on Neumann’s part.
Hartert (1919a: 146)
called attention to this error. All of the Riggenbach specimens from
Diourbel
were collected in
October 1907
, and this
holotype
is the only one collected on the 8th.
Neumann (1908a)
did not list his specimens, but the new subspecies he named were based on the
Riggenbach
specimens housed in the
Rothschild Collection. The
following
Riggenbach
specimens, all collected in
Senegal
in 1907, are considered
paratypes
of
aucupum
:
Diourbel
,
AMNH 452946–452948
,
5–11
October
;
Kirkaoua
,
AMNH 452949
,
29
November
;
Thies
,
AMNH 452950
,
452951
,
6
and 28
December
;
Gassam
,
AMNH 452952
,
7
September
;
Ouomin
,
AMNH 452953
,
452954
,
7
and 17
September
;
Ogo
,
AMNH 452955
,
22
August
;
Kael
,
AMNH 452956
,
452957
,
11
August
;
Tieli
,
AMNH 452958–452964
,
23
August. All
of the specimens are in adult male plumage except
AMNH 452959
, sexed as a male but in femalelike plumage
.