Amblyospiza aethiopica Neumann

Amblyospiza aethiopica Neumann Amblyospiza aethiopica Neumann, 1902a: 9 (in der Landschaft Malo nahe dem Omo; bei Anderatscha in Kaffa). Now Amblyospiza albifrons melanota (Heuglin, 1863). See Neumann, 1905: 342–343; Hartert, 1919: 137; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 31; Dickinson, 2003: 719; Fry and Keith, 2004: 198– 201; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 336; and Craig, 2010: 138–139. LECTOTYPE: AMNH 725370, adult male, collected at Uaja, Malo Region, Ethiopia, on 13 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 795). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann listed his two specimens but did not designate a type. Later, Neumann (1905: 342) listed the male bearing his number 795 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of aethiopica. The paratype is AMNH 725371, female (not male, as in Neumann, 1905: 342), Anderatscha, Kaffa, Ethiopia, 17 March 1901, O. Neumann (no. 1019). I did not find the locality ‘‘Uaja’’; howev- er, in his itinerary, Neumann (1904c: 323), noted that he was at Banka, 06.33N, 36.38E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 403), on 14 February 1901. Neumann (1902b) wrote an account of his travels, with a map showing his itinerary, but it did not include all of his localities.Published as part of 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, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 18, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995