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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Spermospiza haematina leonina
Neumann
Spermospiza haematina leonina
Neumann, 1910: 523
(Bo,
Sierra Leone
).
Now
Spermophaga haematina haematina
(Vieillot, 1805)
. See
Hartert, 1919a: 137
;
Mayr et al., 1968: 321–322
;
Dickinson, 2003: 728
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 314–315
; and
Payne, 2010: 323
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 728100
, adult male, collected at
Bo
,
07.58N
,
11.45W
(Times atlas),
Sierra Leone
, in
August 1904
, by
R. Kemp
(no. 147).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated his only male specimen from Bo as the
holotype
;
it was listed as the type by
Hartert (1919a: 137)
with the addition of
Kemp’s
field number.
Neumann
also listed the other specimens he examined: six from
Leiden
, two from
Berlin
, and six from the
Rothschild Collection. Three
of the six
paratypes
from the
Rothschild Collection
in
AMNH
are:
Sierra Leone
,
Bo
,
AMNH 728101
, female, by Kemp
;
Liberia
,
Hill Town
,
Du Queah River
,
AMNH 728108
, male,
30 March 1887
, by Büttikofer (no. 189)
;
Schieffelinsville,
Junk River
,
AMNH 728109
, female (not male),
30 January 1887
, by Büttikofer (no. 73). Three additional females were marked
leonina
by Neumann and are considered the three additional Rothschild specimens that he examined:
paratypes
AMNH 728111
, [female plumage],
Gold Coast
, undated,
Swanzy
coll., probably purchased from Gerrard (no. 6676j)
;
AMNH 728114
, female,
West Africa
, from Gerrard (no. 6676i)
;
AMNH 728120
, [female plumage], no further information
.