Lagonosticta graueri Rothschild Estrilda cinereovinacea rudolfi Hartert

Lagonosticta graueri Rothschild, 1909: 102 (Forest near Baraka, north-west of Lake Tanganyika, 1900 metres).

Estrilda cinereovinacea rudolfi Hartert, 1919a: 141 .

Now Euschistospiza cinereovinacea graueri (Rothschild, 1909) . See Chapin, 1954b: 479; Mayr et al., 1968: 324; Dickinson, 2003: 728; Fry and Keith, 2004: 340–341; and Payne, 2010: 333.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 451288, adult male, collected in deep forest near Baraka, 1900 m, 04.09S, 29.05E (Times atlas), northwest of Lake Tanganika, Congo (Kinshasa) (5 Congo Free State, as on label), on 11 November 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 3767). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description, describing only the male but saying that Grauer had collected a small series. Hartert (1919a: 141) listed Grauer specimen no. 3767 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of graueri, but at the same time, because he included both Lagonosticta graueri Rothschild, 1909, and Estrilda atricapilla graueri Neumann, 1908, in the genus Estrilda, where they are homonyms, he provided the new name Estrilda cinereovinacea rudolfi for Lagonosticta graueri . Because the two former names are not now included in the genus Estrilda, Rothschild’s name can be used for Euschistospiza cinereovinacea graueri, of which Hartert’s rudolfi now becomes an objective synonym; they share the same type.

Rothschild’s paralectotypes are: Near Baraka, 1900 m., AMNH 451289–451300, five males, seven females, 26 October–30 November 1908 ; west of Lake Tanganika, AMNH 451301, 451302, males, 7 and 30 July 1908, all collected by Rudolf Grauer. I did not find AMNH 451291 and 451299 in the collection and they were perhaps exchanged without the catalog having been marked .