Poliospiza striolata ugandae 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 : 63-64

Poliospiza striolata ugandae van Someren

Poliospiza striolata ugandae van Someren, 1921a: 114 (Mt. Elgon) .

Now Serinus striolatus striolatus (Rüppell, 1840) . See van Someren, 1922: 168; Hartert, 1928: 199; Howell et al., 1968: 227; Dickinson, 2003: 748; Fry and Keith, 2004: 495–497; and Clement, 2010: 535.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 714161 , female, collected on Mount Elgon , ca, 01.08N, 34.33E ( Polhill, 1988), Uganda, on 18 July 1916. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that his type, in the Rothschild Collection, was a female, collected on Mount Elgon on 18 July 1916, and said that he had seven males and three females from Mount Elgon and South Ankole and that ‘‘Specimens from the Kivu districts appear to be indistinguishable from ugandae.’’ Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 714163, male, AMNH 714164, female, and AMNH 714165, male, collected in July 1907 by collectors for van Someren. AMNH 714167–714181, seven males, eight females, collected in the Kivu district, in August and November/ December 1907 by Grauer would have been seen by van Someren in the Rothschild Collection and are also paratypes of ugandae.

Howell et al. (1968: 227) recognized S. striolatus affinis and considered ugandae a synonym of it. Recent authors have considered affinis a synonym of nominate striolatus .