Ploceus melanocephalus subsp. usumburae Neumann
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae Neumann
Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae Neumann, 1920: 82 (Usumbura).
Now Ploceus melanocephalus duboisi Hartlaub, 1886. See Hartert, 1928: 194; Chapin, 1954b: 340–342; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 48; Dickinson, 2003: 722; Fry and Keith, 2004: 174–175; and Craig, 2010: 163–164.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 723422, female [male plumage], collected at Usumbura, 03.23S, 29.21E (Chapin, 1954a), Burundi, on 17 April 1908, by Rudolf Grauer (no. 2394). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann described only the male, gave only one measurement, and said that the type, with the above data, was in the Rothschild Collection. The Rothschild label is marked ‘‘ Ploceus melanocephalus usumburae Neum. Type,’’ in Neumann’s hand. It also bears a Rothschild type label. Two additional specimens of P. melanocephalus from Usumbura, also sexed as females but in male plumage, were considered to be specimens of duboisi by Neumann, who said that they occurred at Usumbura with his specimen of usumburae but lacked its trace of brown on the chest.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1908-04-17
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Genus
- Ploceus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 723422
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Neumann
- Species
- usumburae
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1908-04-17
References
- Neumann, O. 1920. Neue Gattungen und Unterarten afrikanischer Vogel. Journal fur Ornithologie 68: 77 - 83.
- Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.
- Chapin, J. P. 1954 b. The birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: ix + 846 pp., 27 pls.
- Moreau, R. E., and J. C. Greenway, Jr. 1962. Family Ploceidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 3 - 75. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Fry, C. H. and S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp, 36 pls.
- Craig, A. J. F. K. 2010. Family Ploceidae (weavers), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 132 - 197. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp, 60 pls., photographs.
- Chapin, J. P. 1954 a. Gazetteer for '' The birds of the Belgian Congo. '' Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: 638 - 738.