Lagonosticta senegala erythreae Neumann

Lagonosticta senegala erythreae Neumann, 1905: 349 (Adarte) .

Now Lagonosticta senegala rhodopsis (Heuglin, 1863) . See Hartert, 1919a: 147–148; Wolters, 1958: 204–207; Mayr et al., 1968: 327; Dickinson 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 360–364; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 348; and Payne, 2010: 337–338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451148, adult male, collected at Adarte, Bogosland, Eritrea, on 16 November (not February) 1899, by G. Schrader. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as the type the single specimen of this form in the Rothschild Collection and also included specimens in ZMB from ‘‘Nubien,’’ collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg. Hartert (1919a: 147) called attention to the incorrect citation of the month of collection in the original description.

Ash and Atkins (2009: 399) gave two alternative spellings of Adarte. The correct one in this case must be Aderde, 15.40N, 38.08E, as the coordinates for the Bogos Mountains are 15.46N, 38.30E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 405).