TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 559 



Granatina iantliinogaster roosevelti Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 (9) : 3, July 31, 1913. 

 =Estrilda ianthinogasler roosevelti (Mearns). See Sclater, Systema 



avium aethiopicarura 2:807, 1930; Delacour, Zoologica, New York 



28:78,85, 1943. 

 214634. Adult male. Southern Guaso Nyiro River (at a point east of 



Sotik Post), Masai Reserie, Kenya Colony. June 14, 1909. Collected 



by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 16045, Smithsonian African 



Expedition. 

 Estrilda rhodopyga polia Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 (9) : 1, July 31, 1913. 

 =Estrilda rhodopyga centralis Kothe. See Friedmann, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Bull. 153 (2) : 451, 1937. 

 247436. Adult male. Along the Gato River (at elev. 4,000 feet), near 



Gardulla (lat. 5°35' N., long. 37°27' E.), Ethiopia. May 2, 1912. 



Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 21687. Childs Frick 



African Expedition (1911-1912) . 

 Estrilda rhodopyga hypochra Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. CoU. 61 (9) : 2, July 31, 1913. 

 =Estril.da rhodopyga centralis Kothe. See Friedmann, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Bull. 153 (2) : 451, 1937. 

 213786. Adult male. "Between Kapiti Plains Station . . . and camp at 



Potha," Machakos District, Central Province, Kenya Colony. April 



27, 1909. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 15632. 



Smithsonian African Expedition. 

 Estrilda atricapilla keniensis Mearns 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 4S: 390, Jan. 19, 1915. 

 =Estrilda atricapilla keniensis Mearns? See Jackson, The Birds of Kenya 



Colony and the Uganda Protectorate 3 : 1513, 1938. 

 214622. Adult male. "Fey's Farm," Njabini (elev. 8,000 feet), near 



Naivasha, Naivasha District, Central Province, Kenya Colony. Aug. 



11, 1909. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 16540. 



Smithsonian African Expedition. 



Genus ERYTHRURA Swainson 



Geospiza cyaneovirens Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 117, "pi. xxxi, fig. 



4," 1848. 

 =Erythrura cyaneovirens cyaneovirens (Peale). See Mayr, Birds of the 



Southwest Pacific, p. 123, 1945. 

 15776. Adult (sex not indicated). Upolu Island, Samoan Islands. 



Oceania. 18-. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Peale's name is correctly spelled as above. 



