Spermospiza haematina leonina Neumann

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 87-88

Spermospiza haematina leonina Neumann

Spermospiza haematina leonina Neumann, 1910: 523 (Bo, Sierra Leone).

Now Spermophaga haematina haematina (Vieillot, 1805) . See Hartert, 1919a: 137; Mayr et al., 1968: 321–322; Dickinson, 2003: 728; Fry and Keith, 2004: 314–315; and Payne, 2010: 323.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728100 , adult male, collected at Bo , 07.58N, 11.45W (Times atlas), Sierra Leone, in August 1904, by R. Kemp (no. 147). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated his only male specimen from Bo as the holotype; it was listed as the type by Hartert (1919a: 137) with the addition of Kemp’s field number. Neumann also listed the other specimens he examined: six from Leiden , two from Berlin , and six from the Rothschild Collection. Three of the six paratypes from the Rothschild Collection in AMNH are: Sierra Leone, Bo, AMNH 728101 , female, by Kemp ; Liberia, Hill Town , Du Queah River, AMNH 728108 , male, 30 March 1887, by Büttikofer (no. 189) ; Schieffelinsville, Junk River , AMNH 728109 , female (not male), 30 January 1887, by Büttikofer (no. 73). Three additional females were marked leonina by Neumann and are considered the three additional Rothschild specimens that he examined: paratypes AMNH 728111 , [female plumage], Gold Coast, undated, Swanzy coll., probably purchased from Gerrard (no. 6676j) ; AMNH 728114 , female, West Africa , from Gerrard (no. 6676i) ; AMNH 728120 , [female plumage], no further information .