Uraeginthus bengalus ugandae Zedlitz

Uraeginthus bengalus ugandae Zedlitz, 1911: 606 (Entebbe, Uganda).

Now Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1919a: 141; Mayr et al., 1968: 333; Dickinson, 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 327–329; and Payne, 2010: 327.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 452036, adult male, collected at Entebbe, 00.05N, 32.29E (Times atlas), Uganda, on 28 April 1907, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 76). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Zedlitz gave Grauer’s unique number of the holotype, noting that it was in the Rothschild Collection. He did not specifically mention other specimens.