Erythropygia brunneiceps Reichenow, 1891b: 63

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 42

Erythropygia brunneiceps Reichenow, 1891b: 63 .

Now: Cercotrichas leucophrys brunneiceps (Reichenow, 1891) . See Deignan et al. (1964: 20).

Holotype: ZMB 27016 (B 18615, Fischer no. 800), skin, former mount, female, collected on the “Waso nyiro”, 28.04.[18]83.

Type locality: “ Waso nyiro” [ Uaso Nyiro River , Southern Uaso Nyiro Valley, near the Nguruman Escarpment, Kajiado County, Kenya], from the original description as well as localituy of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but the locality Nguruman was given. Fischer (1884) listed two females of this species from Nguruman (nos. 777, 800). Of these, only no. 800 was inventoried and is now in the collection (there is no trace of no. 777); evidently only ZMB 27016 was in the collection in 1891, so is regarded as the holotype for this species. On the collecting date, Fischer was travelling along the Southern Uaso Nyiro Valley at the base of the Nguruman Escarpment on his way north to Lake Naivasha.