Cinnyris ansorgei Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 144

Cinnyris ansorgei Hartert

Cinnyris ansorgei Hartert (in Ansorge), 1899: 350 (Nandi Station in the Uganda Protectorate).

Now Cinnyris reichenowi reichenowi Sharpe, 1891 . See Hartert, 1920a: 425, Fry et al., 2000: 250– 252, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 278.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 688993 , adult male, collected at Nandi Station , 00.12N, 35.06E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.), Nandi district, Kenya, on 16 March 1898, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 341). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert described this form from a single specimen and later ( Hartert, 1920a: 425) synonymized it with Cinnyris reichenowi . When both Cinnyris reichenowi Sharpe, 1891 , and Drepanorhynchus reichenowi Fisher, 1884 , are placed in the genus Nectarinia , as in Rand (1967: 256, 270), Sharpe’s name is preoccupied. The next available species name is Cinnyris preussi Reichenow, 1892 ; and the next available subspecies name is Cinnyris reichenowi kikuyensis Mearns, 1915 . As a result, Rand (1967: 256) listed this form as Nectarinia preussi kikuyensis .

Hartert’s type is figured in Ansorge (1899: opp. p. 344, pl. 2, upper figure).