Cinnyris afra graueri Neumann

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 : 143-144

Cinnyris afra graueri Neumann

Cinnyris afra graueri Neumann, 1908: 55 (Western Kivu Volcanoes).

Now Cinnyris stuhlmanni graueri Neumann, 1908 . See Fry et al., 2000: 244–245, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 277.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 701795 , adult male, collected in Vorberge d[er] westl[ichen] [Kivu] Vulkane, 2400 m, Congo (Kinshasa), on 21 August 1907, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 1040). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENT: In the original description, Neumann noted that his type was a male from the western Kivu volcanoes, collected on 21 August 1907 at 2400 m. However, there were two specimens with those data, and Hartert (1920a: 425) listed Grauer’s specimen no. 1040 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The specimen bears, in addition to Grauer’s field label, Rothschild Collection and type labels. Neumann did not mention how many specimens he examined, but, because he worked in the Rothschild Collection, Grauer specimens collected in 1907 on the western Kivu volcanoes and at Karisimbi are also paralectotypes: AMNH 701796–701805, nine males and one female.