Nectarinia pulchella aegra 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 : 146

Nectarinia pulchella aegra Hartert

Nectarinia pulchella aegra Hartert, 1921a: 122 (Timia) .

Now Cinnyris pulchellus pulchellus (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Fry et al., 2000: 258–261, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 283.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 690868 , adult male, collected at Timia , 3800 ft, 18.09N, 08.46E ( Times Atlas ), Azbine , Niger (5 Asben ( Aïr ), French West Africa, as on label), on 21 June 1920, by A. Buchanan (no. 688). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as his holotype Buchanan’s specimen no. 688, and listed a type series of 14 specimens. The holotype bears Buchanan’s original label, marked ‘‘ Type ,’’ and Rothschild Collection and type labels. The paratypes, all collected in 1920, are: Farniso, near Kano, Nigeria, AMNH 690846 (Buchan- an no. 185), male, AMNH 690847 (186), female ; Zinder, Niger, AMNH 690848 (375), AMNH 690849 (374), males, AMNH 690850 (209), female ; Agades , Niger, AMNH 690855 (727), male, AMNH 690856 (499), female ; Azzal , Niger, AMNH 690857 (731), AMNH 690858 (732), males, AMNH 690859 (742), female ; Timia , Niger, AMNH 690869 (689), male, AMNH 690870 (695), AMNH 690871 (690), females. Other specimens collected by Buchanan were from later expeditions .