Granatina ianthogaster (sic) montana van Someren

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 : 93

Granatina ianthogaster (sic) montana van Someren

Granatina ianthogaster (sic) montana van Someren, 1919: 53 (Naivasha) .

Now Granatina ianthinogaster (Reichenow, 1879) . See van Someren, 1922: 159; Hartert, 1928: 195; White, 1963: 198; Mayr et al., 1968: 336; Dickinson, 2003: 730; Fry and Keith, 2004: 334–335; and Payne, 2010: 328.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 452222 , adult male, collected at Naivasha , 00.44S, 36.26E (Times atlas), Kenya, on 20 February 1919. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type the single male specimen in the Rothschild collection collected at Naivasha on 20 February 1919 and noted that 27 specimens were collected. The original label of AMNH 452222 is marked ‘‘Type montana’’ by van Someren. Paratypes in AMNH: Naivasha, AMNH 452223–452228, 452230, six males, one female, collected between February 1917 and February 1919, all from the V.G.L. van Someren Collection.