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
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Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae
Neumann
Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae
Neumann, 1920: 82
(Usumbura)
.
Now
Ploceus melanocephalus duboisi
Hartlaub, 1886
. See
Hartert, 1928: 194
;
Chapin, 1954b: 340–342
;
Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 48
;
Dickinson, 2003: 722
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 174–175
; and
Craig, 2010: 163–164
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 723422
, female [male plumage], collected at
Usumbura
,
03.23S
,
29.21E
(
Chapin, 1954a
),
Burundi
, on
17 April 1908
, by
Rudolf Grauer
(no. 2394).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann described only the male, gave only one measurement, and said that the
type
, with the above data, was in the Rothschild Collection. The Rothschild label is marked ‘‘
Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae
Neum.
Type
,’’ in Neumann’s hand. It also bears a Rothschild
type
label. Two additional specimens of
P. melanocephalus
from Usumbura, also sexed as females but in male plumage, were considered to be specimens of
duboisi
by Neumann, who said that they occurred at Usumbura with his specimen of
usumburae
but lacked its trace of brown on the chest.