Estrilda jamesoni benguellensis Delacour

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 : 91

Estrilda jamesoni benguellensis Delacour Estrilda jamesoni kabisombo Traylor

Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei Neumann, 1908c: 58 (Kabisombo River near Quillengues, Benguella).

Now Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei Neumann, 1908 . See Hartert, 1919a: 148; Mayr et al., 1968: 330–331; Dean, 2000: 326; Dickinson, 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 373–375; and Payne, 2010: 342–343.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 728878 , male, collected on the Cabissombo (5 Kabisombo) River , 13.51S, 14.09E, near Quilengues (5 Quillengues), 14.13S, 14.11E ( Dean, 2000: 370, 384), Huíla, Angola, on 1 February 1905, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 364). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann noted in the original description that the type with the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. However, there were two such specimens; Hartert (1919a: 148) cited Ansorge’s unique specimen number 364 for the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Neumann gave the range of his new form as extending from Pungo Andongo to South Benguella. This would include all of the Ansorge specimens of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Paralectotypes in AMNH, all collected by Ansorge, are: Cabissombo River, AMNH 728879 , male, 1 February 1905 ; Fort Quilengues , AMNH 728880 , male, 11 January 1905 ; Kimaholo River, AMNH 728881 , female, 29 January 1905 ; Cabeca de Landroes , AMNH 728882 , male, 29 July 1904 ; Elandswater , AMNH 728883–728889 , five males, two females, 24– 27 July 1904 ; Bongo River, AMNH 728890 , female, 5 August 1904 ; Pungo Andongo , AMNH 728891 , unsexed, 19 June 1903. Of these, I did not find AMNH 728886 in the collection .

Delacour (1943: 84) provided the replacement name Estrilda jamesoni benguellensis for Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei Neumann, 1908 , preoccupied by Pytelia ansorgei Hartert, 1899 , if Lagonosticta is merged with Estrilda . Traylor (1961: 164) then provided the replacement name Estrilda jamesoni kabisombo for Estrilda jamesoni benguellensis Delacour, 1943 , preoccupied by Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neumann, 1908 . Both replacement names share the same type as L. r. ansorgei Neumann, 1908 .