Lagonosticta senegala rendalli Hartert

Lagonosticta senegala rendalli Hartert, 1898a: 72 (Upper Shiré River).

Now Lagonosticta senegala rendalli Hartert, 1898 . See Hartert, 1919a: 147; Mayr et al., 1968: 328; Dickinson, 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 360– 364; and Payne, 2010: 337–338.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 451195, adult male, collected on the upper Shiré River, south of Lake Nyasa, Malawi, on 9 May 1895, by Percy Rendall (no. 13). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated a male and a female specimen as syntypes of rendalli. Hartert (1919a: 147) listed the male bearing Rendall’s no. 13 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of rendalli. The female, AMNH 451196, collected at the same locality on 4 March 1896 by Rendall (no. 183), is the paralectotype.