Linura Fischeri Reichenow, 1882: 91

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 : 54

Linura Fischeri Reichenow, 1882: 91 .

Now: Vidua fischeri ( Reichenow, 1882) . See Blake et al. (1968: 394).

Syntype: ZMB 26639 (B 18056), skin, former mount, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.[18]82 .

Syntype: ZMB 26640 (B 18056, Fischer no. 563), skin, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.[18]82 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.32617 , skin, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.[18]82 .

Syntype: MHH 4054 (Fischer no. 564), mount, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.[18]82, ex. coll. F. Heine.

Type locality: “ Usegua (Ostafrika)” [ Useguha country, Tanga Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as locality of the syntypes .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the locality “Usegua” were given. As only the male was described, females are not included in the type series (e.g. ZMB 26641). Therefore ZMB 26639, ZMB 26640, ZMB 2000.32617 and MHH 4054 ( Quaisser & Nicolai 2006) (all collected for Fischer) are regarded as syntypes. Fischer (1885a) listed “Usegua” (“unweit Kipumbui”) and Matióm as localities, but Matióm is far from Useguha country, so the Matióm specimens have no type status. “Kipumbui” (Kipumbwi) however lies to the southwest of Pangani (05°38’S, 38°53’E) in what was known as Useguha country. The locality is close to the coast and would be surprising, as Vidua fischeri is typically a species of arid and semi-arid country. Therefore “unweit (close to) Kipumbui” could mean inland from Kipumbui.