Hypargus harterti Shelley

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 : 89

[ Hypargus harterti Shelley ]

Shelley (1903: 30) proposed Hypargus harterti as a replacement name for Lagonosticta (5 Hypargus ) nitidula Hartlaub, 1886 , not Estrelda (5 Hypargus ) nitidula Hartlaub, 1885 , when the two nominal taxa are placed in the same genus. Hypargus harterti thus has the same type as Lagonosticta nitidula Hartlaub, 1886 , which is not in AMNH. Hartert (1919a: 145–146) was in error when he attempted to typify Shelley’s name, harterti , with a specimen from Sagua, Quanza River, Angola, which Shelley (1903: 30) said had convinced him that a new name was needed. That specimen is now AMNH 451305, male, collected at Sagua, Quanza River, on 21 May 1901, by C. Hubert Pemberton. For a discussion, see Chapin (1954b: 531–533). Because it bears a Rothschild type label, it remains in the AMNH type collection with a label added to explain its status. Because the two forms named nitidula are no longer in the same genus, both of Hartlaub’s names may be used.