Serinus (? flaviventris (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)

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 : 63

Serinus (? flaviventris ) loveridgei van Someren

Serinus (? flaviventris ) loveridgei van Someren, 1921a: 114 (Lumbo, North Mozambique).

Now Serinus sulphuratus sharpii Neumann, 1900 . See Hartert, 1928: 199; Howell et al., 1968: 223;

Dickinson, 2003: 747; Fry and Keith, 2004: 489– 491; and Clement, 2010: 529–530.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 713613 , adult male, collected at Lumbo , 15.00S, 40.40E (Times atlas), Mozambique, on 10 July 1918, by Arthur Loveridge. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as the holotype a male in the Rothschild Collection collected at Lumbo on 10 July 1918 by Loveridge. He apparently had two males, but the second male, a paratype, did not come to AMNH.

Howell et al. (1968: 223) recognized S. sulphuratus shelleyi , with loveridgei a synonym. More recent authors have synonymized shelleyi and loveridgei with S. s. sharpii (not sharpei).

Loveridge (1922: 837) listed his localities for collections made during the years 1915– 1919 and noted that new forms had been named by van Someren.