Serinus leucopygius pallens Vaurie, 1956

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 61

Serinus leucopygius pallens Vaurie

Serinus leucopygius pallens Vaurie, 1956a: 6 (Azzal, north of Agadés, Aïr Massif).

Now Serinus leucopygius pallens Vaurie, 1956 . See Hartert, 1921: 135; Howell et al., 1968: 215; Dickinson, 2003: 746–747; Fry and Keith, 2004: 470–471; and Clement, 2010: 522–523.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 713404 , adult female, Azzal , north of Agadéz (5 Agadés), 17.00N, 07.56E (Times atlas), Aïr Massif, Niger, on 14 July 1920, by A. Buchanan. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Vaurie gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and (on pp. 5–6) listed the 10 specimens of the new subspecies that he examined. These were the same Buchanan specimens listed by Hartert (1921: 135). The nine paratypes of pallens are: Tatukut, Damergou, AMNH 713397–713399 , three males, 22–24 March 1920 ; Zinder, AMNH 713400– 713402 , two males, one female?, 30 June 1920 ; Azzal , AMNH 713403 , female, 14 July 1920 ; Kano, AMNH 713405 , male juvenile, 5 December 1919 ; Farniso , near Kano, AMNH 713406 , male juvenile, 23 December 1919 .

The subspecies pallens has been recognized by most recent authors, but Fry and Keith (2004: 470) include it in riggenbachi without explanation.