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
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Astrilda
(sic)
nonnula
Hartlaub
Astrilda
(sic)
nonnula
Hartlaub, 1883: 425
(Kudurma)
.
Now
Estrilda nonnula nonnula
Hartlaub, 1883
. See
Hartert, 1919a: 142
;
Mayr et al., 1968: 346
;
Dickinson, 2003: 731
;
Fry and Keith, 2004: 305– 307
;
Payne, 2010: 321–322
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 451799
, immature female, collected at
Kudurma
,
04.45N
,
29.35E
(
Chapin, 1954a
),
southern Bahr
el-
Ghazal
,
Sudan
, on
12 November 1882
, by
Emin Pasha
(5 Emin Bey) (no. 269).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartlaub described a single individual and said that it was an adult male, but the description applies to an immature bird. AMNH 451799 is an immature individual and matches the bird shown in
Hartlaub (1887: 321
, pl. 13). Emin’s female symbol, as usual, is an upside-down male symbol, probably misinterpreted by Hartlaub. Emin’s label has the name ‘‘
Habropyga nonnula
Hartl.
’’ written on it in a hand I do not recognize. It is the only Emin specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and I measure the wing as
46 mm
(
47 mm
given by Hartlaub).
Hartert (1919a: 142)
considered it the type, adding Emin’s field number, which was not cited by Hartlaub. Types of all the other forms described at that time by
Hartlaub (1883: 425–426)
came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, so there seems to be no reason to doubt that this specimen is the
holotype
.