Lagonosticta jamesoni taruensis van Someren

Lagonosticta jamesoni taruensis van Someren, 1919: 54 (Tsavo) .

Now Lagonosticta rhodopareia jamesoni Shelley, 1882 . See van Someren, 1922: 164; Hartert, 1928: 196; Mayr et al., 1968: 330; Dickinson, 2003: 729; Fry and Keith, 2004: 373–375; and Payne, 2010: 342–343.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728893, adult male, collected at Tsavo, 02.59S, 38.28E (Times

atlas), Kenya, on 14 March 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren cited as the type the single male in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data. He noted that six males and two females were collected. The following two specimens are from the van Someren Collection and are considered paratypes: AMNH 728894, female, Tsavo, 18 May 1918 ; AMNH 728895, male, Mombasa, 30 March 1916, collected by Turner for van Someren. Other paratypes are in RMCA (Louette et al., 2002: 80) .

Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei Neumann