Amadina fasciata alexanderi Neumann, 1908

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 : 126-127

Amadina fasciata alexanderi Neumann

Amadina fasciata alexanderi Neumann, 1908e: 43 (Waram, Hawash River, Shoa).

Now Amadina fasciata alexanderi Neumann, 1908 . See Hartert, 1919a: 148; Mayr et al., 1968: 389; Dickinson, 2003: 727; and Payne, 2010: 301.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728357 , adult male, collected at Waram , Awash (5 Hawash) River, 08.52N, 40.04E ( Ash and Atkins, 2009: 402), Shewa (5 Shoa), southeastern Ethiopia, on 9 June 1903, by P. Zaphiro. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated as type the single specimen collected by Zaphiro at Waram , saying that it was in the Rothschild Collection and that the subspecies occurred from northern Abyssinia through Shoa and Somaliland to German East Africa. Paratypes in AMNH, all from Ethiopia, are: Sassabane, AMNH 728354 , male, 31 July 1894 ; Goura , AMNH 728355 , female, 14 September 1894 ; Balassire , AMNH 728356 , male, 10 August 1902 ; Bonta , AMNH 728358– 728362 , two males, three females, 7 June 1903 ; Aoura Malka , AMNH 728363–728367 , two males, three females, 19 June 1903 ; Kassam , AMNH 728368 , female, 24 June 1903 ; Galla area , AMNH 728369 , male, AMNH 728370 , female, 9 July 1903. The first two of these paratypes were collected by Donaldson Smith and the remainder by Zaphiro .

PLOCEIDAE VIDUINAE