Lamprocolius splendidus bailundensis Neumann

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, 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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 37

Lamprocolius splendidus bailundensis Neumann

Lamprocolius splendidus bailundensis Neumann, 1920: 81 (N’gungo, Bailundu Land).

Now Lamprotornis splendidus bailundensis ( Neumann, 1920) . See Sclater, 1930: 659; Amadon, 1962a: 96; Dean 2000: 299; Dickinson, 2003: 656; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 747.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 668830 , adult male, collected at Gungo (= N’Gungo), 10.50S, 15.35E ( Dean, 2000: 377), Cuanza Sul, Angola, on 31 July 1901, by C.H. Pemberton. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann noted that the type bearing the above data was in the Rothschild Collection and described both male and female without enumerating his specimens. The holotype bears a Rothschild type label but was not listed in any of Hartert’s lists of types in the Rothschild Collection. Paratypes in AMNH are: Gungo, AMNH 668831, male, AMNH 668832, female, both 9 August 1901, collected by C.H. Pemberton.