Plocepasser mahali ansorgei Hartert, 1907

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 : 4-5

Plocepasser mahali ansorgei Hartert

Plocepasser mahali ansorgei Hartert, 1907a: 487 (Wawayella, Benguella) .

Now Plocepasser mahali ansorgei Hartert, 1907 . See Hartert, 1919: 144; Dean, 2000: 305; Dickinson, 2003: 715; Fry and Keith, 2004: 56–58; and Craig, 2010: 135.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722393 , adult male, collected at Wawayella , Benguela, Angola, on 12 July 1904, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 292). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Ansorge’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, listing 11 specimens in his type series. The following are paratypes: Wawayella, AMNH 722394–722396 (Ansorge nos. 291, 293, 294), two adult and one juvenile female, 12 July 1904 ; Sandpits , AMNH 722397 (277), juvenile male, 10 July 1904 ; Katenge , AMNH 722398 (65), adult male, 18 June 1904 ; Kimahole River , AMNH 722399 (332), adult male, 29 January 1905 ; Kipachango , AMNH 722400 (304), adult male, AMNH 722401 (305), adult female, 26 January 1905 ; Kasimo River , AMNH 722402 (3322), adult male, 3 February 1905 ; Kitoko River , AMNH 722403 (3333), adult female, 4 February 1905 .

I was unable to find coordinates for Wawayella; however, Ansorge was at Sandpits on 10 July 1904, two days before the collection of the holotype. This locality is equated with Uche, 12.43S, 13.20E, by Dean (2000: 386).