Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin, 1932

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 145

Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin

Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin, 1932: 16 (at 9000 feet on Mt. Kandashomwa, west of Ruzizi Valley).

Now Cinnyris rockefelleri Chapin, 1932 . See Fry et al., 2000: 254, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 279.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 410078 , adult male, collected on Mt. Kandashomwa, 9000 ft, 03.04S, 28.52E ( Chapin, 1954: 673), west of the Ruzizi River , Congo (Kinshasa), on 9 July 1929, by J. Sterling Rockefeller on the American Museum Tanganyika Expedition of 1928–1929 (no. 766).

COMMENTS: Chapin cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had a second male. The paratype is AMNH 410079, male, collected on 10 July 1929 at the same locality by Charles B.G. Murphy (no. 769).