Ploceus (Othyphantes) bannermani Chapin, 1932

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 19

Ploceus (Othyphantes) bannermani Chapin

Ploceus (Othyphantes) bannermani Chapin, 1932: 17 (Djang district, 4500 feet, Cameroon).

Now Ploceus bannermani Chapin, 1932 . See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 36; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 109–110; and Craig, 2010: 190–191.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 295349 , unsexed, Dschang (= Djang) district, 4500 ft, 05.28N, 10.03E ( Chapin, 1954a), Cameroon, on 7 May 1930, by R.H. Drinkwater (no. 359).

COMMENTS: Chapin cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, and noted that there were three specimens known. The one paratype in AMNH is AMNH 415812, female, collected in the Nkongsamba district, Cameroon, on 3 May 1930, by Drinkwater (no. 313). The second paratype was collected by Boyd Alexander at Ninong, Manenguba Mountains, Cameroon, on 12 June 1909 and is probably in BMNH.