Ortygospiza atricollis dorsostriata 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 : 96

Ortygospiza atricollis dorsostriata van Someren

Ortygospiza atricollis dorsostriata van Someren, 1921a: 115 (South Ankole).

Now Ortygospiza atricollis dorsostriata van Someren, 1921 . See Hartert, 1928: 195; Mayr et al., 1968: 352; Dickinson, 2003: 731; Fry and Keith, 2004: 386–388; and Payne, 2010: 300–301.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728461 , adult male, collected in South Ankole , western Uganda, on 8 October 1919. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type, in the Rothschild Collection, bore the above data. He did not say how many specimens he examined, but listed his localities as Butiti, Toro and South Ankole. There is one paratype in AMNH: AMNH 728463, female, collected at Butiti, on 2 October 1910.

The subspecies dorsostriata was included in a separate species O. gabonensis by Dickinson (2003: 731) and by Fry and Keith (2004: 386– 388), but Payne (2010: 300–301) gave reasons for combining gabonensis with atricollis , pending further study.

Polhill (1988) gave the coordinates of the Ankole District as ca. 00.30S, 30.30E.