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 10.1206/832.1 85bd2c66-f9f0-4172-8d82-2e8841cd354a 0003-0090 4611863 Lagonosticta senegalla (sic) kikuyuensis van Someren Lagonosticta senegalla (sic) kikuyuensis van Someren, 1919: 55 (Nairobi). Now Lagonosticta senegala ruberrima , Reichenow, 1903 . See van Someren, 1922: 164 ; Hartert, 1928: 196 ; Mayr et al., 1968: 327 ; Dickinson, 2003: 729 ; Fry and Keith, 2004: 360–364 ; and Payne, 2010: 337–338 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 451168 , adult female, collected at Nairobi , 01.17S , 36.50E (Times atlas), Kenya , on 17 February 1917 . From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that his female type from Nairobi, collected on 17 February 1917 , was in the Rothschild Collection; he did not say how many specimens he examined, but noted that males of kikuyuensis did not differ from ruberrima . The above holotype is the only female van Someren specimen of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection .