Estrilda atricapilla graueri Neumann, 1908

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 : 95

Estrilda atricapilla graueri Neumann

Estrilda atricapilla graueri Neumann, 1908b: 55 (Mt. Sabjingo (2700 m.)).

Now Estrilda kandti kandti Reichenow, 1902 . See Hartert, 1919a: 141; Chapin, 1954b: 555–556; Mayr et al., 1968: 346; Priggogine, 1980: 370– 372; Dickinson, 2003: 731; Fry and Keith, 2004: 308–309; Payne, 2010: 321.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451855 , adult male, collected on Mount Sabinyo (5 Sabjingo), 2700m, 01.22S, 29.36E ( Times atlas), on the border of Uganda /Congo (Kinshasa)/ Rwanda, on 1 September 1907, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 1136). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann designated as type the only specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected by Grauer on Mount ‘‘Sabjingo.’’ He gave the range as the western Kivu Volcanoes, and three additional specimens may be considered paratypes: AMNH 451856–451858, two males and one unsexed, collected west of Vulcane, on 2 October 1907, by Grauer. I did not find AMNH 451858 in the collection.

Since Prigogine’s (1980: 370–372) study, graueri has been considered a synonym of kandti , with kandti either a subspecies of E. atricapilla ( Dickinson, 2003: 731) or a separate species E. kandti ( Fry and Keith, 2004, 308–309; Payne, 2010: 321).