Pyrenestes ostrinus gabunensis 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

Pyrenestes ostrinus gabunensis Neumann

Pyrenestes ostrinus gabunensis Neumann, 1910: 528 (Lambarene, Ogowe) .

Now Pyrenestes ostrinus (Vieillot, 1805) . See Hartert, 1919a: 144; Chapin, 1954b: 490–494; Mayr et al., 1968: 319–320; Smith 1990: 381– 414; Dickinson, 2003: 728; Fry and Keith, 2004: 317–321; and Payne, 2010: 322.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728310 , female, Lambaréne´, 00.41S, 10.12E ( Chapin, 1954a: 685),

Ogowe (5 Ogooue´, as on label) River, Gabon, on 22 September 1907, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 756). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann , who noted in the original description that the type was in the Rothschild Collection, had a single female collected at Lambarene on 22 September 1907 ; Hartert (1919a: 144) cited Ansorge’s field number of the holotype. Neumann listed his type series ; all of those that were in the Rothschild Collection are now in AMNH ; there are six additional paratypes in ZMB. Paratypes in AMNH: Congo (Kinshasa), Manyanga , AMNH 728297 , male, no date ; Buta, Welle District, AMNH 728302 , unsexed [male], 1906. Gabon, Abanga River , Ogowe River , AMNH 728304–728306 , males (not females, as listed by Neumann) ; Lambarene, Ogowe River , AMNH 728307– 728309 , 728311 , 728313 , four males, one female (in addition to the type). AMNH 728312 , female from Lambarene is not labeled gabunensis and is not considered a paratype .