Foudia omissa Rothschild, 1912

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 27

Foudia omissa Rothschild

Foudia omissa Rothschild, 1912: 26 (Tamatave) .

Now Foudia omissa Rothschild, 1912 . See Hartert, 1919: 137; Rand, 1936: 482; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 63; Langrand, 1990: 311–312; Dickinson, 2003: 724; and Craig, 2010: 156.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 725619 , adult male, collected at Tamatave , 18.10S, 49.23E (Times Atlas), Madagascar, on 21 August 1891. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild designated as type the specimen collected at Tamatave on 21 August 1891 and noted that he had three specimens. The two paratypes are: Tamatave, AMNH 725620 , adult male, collected on 17 July 1891 ; Ankoraka, AMNH 725621 , adult male, collected on 7 March 1891. All three of these specimens were bought from A. Boucard .