Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren

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 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627992
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1935-FFD9-6A00-955D1C88FE1C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren
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Treatment

Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren, 1921b: 114 (Lumbo, Portuguese E. Africa).

Now Passer diffusus mosambicus van Someren, 1921 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1928: 198; Dickinson, 2003: 717; Fry and Keith, 2004: 7–9; and Summers- Smith, 2009: 803–804.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719795 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Lumbo , 15.00S, 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique (= Portuguese East Africa), on 13 July 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Van Someren designated the holotype in the original description and said that he had six specimens from northern Mozambique and eastern Nyasaland. The type is the only van Someren specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.