Emberiza affinis omoensis Neumann, 1905

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 7

Emberiza affinis omoensis Neumann

Emberiza affinis omoensis Neumann, 1905: 358 (Schetie in Koscha).

Now Emberiza affinis omoensis Neumann, 1905 . See Hartert, 1919: 162, White, 1963: 97, Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire, 1993: 379, and Fry and Keith, 2004: 572–574.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 715690 , adult male, collected at Schetie in Koscha , Ethiopia, on 28 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 934). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as the type his specimen no. 934 and listed three additional specimens. The three paratypes are: AMNH 715691 (Neumann no. 1209), male, Pokodj am Gelo , 11 May 1901 ; AMNH 715692 (un-numbered), male, Gelo , April–May 1901 ; AMNH 715693 (474), female, Tomato in Gudji , östlich des Abaya-Sees, 24 December 1900 .

I was unable to find the exact location of Schetie, but based on Neumann’s (1902) map and his itinerary ( Neumann, 1904:323), it appears that he crossed the Omo River in the vicinity of Singe (06.22N, 36.19E, Times Atlas) and that Koscha is the area just north of the Omo.