Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis Neumann

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 60-61

Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis Neumann

Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis Neumann, 1905: 356 (Kikuyu) .

Now Serinus citrinelloides kikuyensis ( Neumann, 1905) . See Hartert, 1919a: 156; Howell et al., 1968: 212; Fry and Keith, 2004: 460–462; and Clement, 2010: 521.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 710620 , adult male, collected in the Kikuyu Mountains , Kenya, undated, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann said that the type was an adult male in the Rothschild Collection, collected by Doherty at Kikuyu, and added that he had six such specimens. There are, in addition to the type, six adult male specimens in AMNH from the Rothschild Collection, collected by Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains. Neumann’s designation of the type did not serve to distinguish it from one additional undated Doherty specimen, nor did Hartert (1919a: 156) further distinguish the type. Neumann has written his new name and ‘‘Typus’’ on AMNH 710620, and that is the specimen that bears the Rothschild type label and was cataloged as the type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. In order to remove the ambiguity from Neumann’s intended type, I hereby designate AMNH 710620 the lectotype of Spinus citrinelloides kikuyensis . Neumann, in the original description also compared females and immature males from the Kikuyu Mountains, of which there are four, with specimens of S. c. citrinelloides . I consider all of Doherty’s specimens from the Kikuyu Mountains in addition to the lectotype to be paralectotypes: AMNH 710613, male, October 1900; AMNH 710614, immature male, November 1900; AMNH 710615, immature male, November 1900; AMNH 710616, male, December 1900; AMNH 710617, male, January 1901; AMNH 710618, male, January 1901; AMNH 710619, male, March 1901; AMNH 710621, male, undated; AMNH 710622, female, November 1900; AMNH 710623, female, March 1901.

Neumann also included in kikuyensis an example from Naiwascha-See collected by Fischer in ZMB and Kenyan examples collected by Lord Delamere.

This subspecific name is frequently misspelled as kikuyuensis (e.g., Fry and Keith, 2004: 461), but it was spelled kikuyensis in the original description. Hartert (1902g: 620) provided information on this collecting locality.