Pyromelaena ansorgei Hartert

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 27

Pyromelaena ansorgei Hartert

Pyromelaena ansorgei Hartert, 1899b: 344 (Masindi, Unyoro).

Now Euplectes gierowii ansorgei ( Hartert, 1899) . See Hartert, 1919: 145; Chapin, 1954b: 414–416; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 66; Craig, 1993a: 88–89; Dickinson, 2003: 725; Fry and Keith, 2004: 227–228; and Craig, 2010: 144.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 726397 , adult male, collected at Masindi, 01.41N, 31.43E ( Polhill, 1988), Bunyoro (= Unyoro), Uganda, on 17 June 1897, by W.J. Ansorge (no. 147). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Ansorge’s number of the holotype and apparently had a single specimen. It is figured in plate 2, figure 2.