Paludipasser uelensis Chapin

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 : 96

Paludipasser uelensis Chapin

Paludipasser uelensis Chapin, 1916: 24 (Faradje, Upper Uele District).

Now Paludipasser locustella uelensis ( Chapin, 1916) . See Chapin, 1954b: 504–505; Mayr et al., 1968: 352; Dickinson, 2003: 732; Fry and Keith, 2004: 390–392; and Payne, 2010: 300.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 162460 , adult male, collected at Faradje, 03.45N, 29.42E ( Chapin, 1954a), Upper Uele District , Congo (Kinshasa), on 18 January 1913, by James P. Chapin (no. 4482) on the Lang-Chapin Congo Expedition.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chapin cited his unique field number of the holotype and gave measurements of nine males and three females. The 11 paratypes are: Faradje, AMNH 162453–162456 , four males, 12 March 1912 ; Garamba , AMNH 162457 , 162458 , two males, 15–20 June 1912 ; Faradje , AMNH 162459 , male, 18 January 1913 ; Niangara , AMNH 162461 , male, 8 June 1913 ; Faradje , AMNH 162462 , 162463 , two females, 12 March 1912 ; AMNH 162464 , female, 18 January 1913. Two of these were exchanged to RMCA: AMNH 162454 ( RMCA 18495 ) and AMNH 162464 ( RMCA 19621 ) (M. Louette, personal commun.). AMNH 162456 was exchanged to FMNH, now FMNH 269384 (D. Willard, personal commun.). I did not find AMNH 162459 in the collection ; it was perhaps exchanged without the catalog having been marked.