Nigrita Cabanisi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 54

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 47-48

Nigrita Cabanisi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 54 .

Now: Pseudonigrita cabanisi (G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a) . See Amadon et al. (1962: 7).

Syntype: ZMB 27391 (B 18642, Fischer no. 973), skin, former mount, female, collected near the Pare Mountains , 28.07.[18]83 .

Syntype: ZMH 6877 (Fischer no. 690), skin, female, collected at the Pangani River near Pare, 01.03[18]83 .

Type locality: “ Ebene am Pare-Gebirge” [plains near South Pare Mts , Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as locality of the syntypes .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the locality “Ebene am Pare-Gebirge” (plains near the Pare Mountains) were given. As two specimens were listed in Fischer (1884), both (nos. 690 and 973) are regarded as syntypes. ZMH 6877 was mentioned as the type specimen for this species in Bolau (1898). Fischer collected no. 690 on the plains below the South Pare Mountains close to the upper Pangani River on 01 March 1883, while no. 973 was collected in roughly the same locality on his return journey on 31 July 1883 at approximately 3°40’S, 37°30’E.

This species’ name honors the German ornithologist and curator of the ornithological collection at the ZMB, Jean Louis Cabanis (1816–1906).