Estrilda paludicola ruthae Chapin

Estrilda paludicola ruthae Chapin, 1950: 23 (Mompoto, above Lukolela, Congo River).

Now Estrilda paludicola ruthae Chapin, 1950 . See Chapin, 1954b: 541; Mayr et al., 1968: 340; Dickinson, 2003: 730; Fry and Keith, 2004: 292– 293; and Payne, 2010: 315–316.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 297187, immature male, collected at Mompoto, 01.07S, 17.13E (Chapin, 1954), above Lukolela, Congo River, Congo (Kinshasa), on 26 March 1931, by James P. Chapin (no. 587).

COMMENTS: Chapin had the single specimen, the AMNH number of which he cited in the original description, but also included 10 specimens in RMCA from Kunungu and neighboring villages east of Bulobo (see Louette et al., 2002: 79–80).