Pyrenestes unicolor G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 48

Pyrenestes unicolor G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878 (in Reichenow 1878a): 88.

Now: Amblyospiza albifrons unicolor (G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878) . See Amadon et al. (1962: 31).

Syntype: ZMB 23368 (B 15036, Fischer no. 59), skin, former mount, male, collected on “ Sansibar ”, 24.05.[18]77 .

Syntype (missing): (Fischer no. 38), male, collected at “Festland bei Mombas” (mainland near Mombas), [01.07.1877].

Type locality: “ Mombas ” [Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya] and “Sansibar” [ Zanzibar Island, Tanzania], from the original description as well as localities of the syntypes .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the localities “Mombas” and “ Sansibar ” were given.As Fischer & Reichenow (1878b) mentioned only two specimens for this species (nos. 38 and 59), both are regarded as syntypes. However, the whereabouts of no. 38 are unknown. An additional Fischer specimen of this species is in the Berlin collection (ZMB 25661), but it was collected on Zanzibar in 1880 and is therefore not a type.