560 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Geospiza prasina Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) ; 116, "pi. xxxi, fig. 

 3," 1848. 

 E[rythrura]. Pealii Hartlaub 



Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (Wiegmann) 18 (1): 104, 1852. 

 =Erythrura cyaneovirens pealii Hartlaub. See Mayr, Birds of the South- 

 west Pacific, p. 147, 1945. 

 15777. Adult (sex not indicated). Vanua Levu Island, Fiji Islands, 



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

 E[rythrura]. Pealii Hartlaub is a substitute name for Erythrura prasina 

 (Peale), not Erythrura prasina (Sparrman), 1788, and is based upon the 

 same type specimen. 



Genus LONCHURA Sykes 



Aidemosyne inornata Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 (14) : 3, Sept. 20, 1913. 

 =Lonchura malabarica inornata (Mearns). See Sclater, Systema avium 



aethiopicarum 2: 771, 1930; Delacour, Zoologica, New York 28: 82, 85, 



1943. 

 217330. Adult female. Ed Dueim (on the White Nile at about lat. 14°00' 



N., long. 32°20' E.), Gezira (El Jezira) District, White Nile Province, 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Mar. 13, 1910. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. 



Original number 18715. Smithsonian African Expedition. 

 Aidemosyne cantans meridionalis Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 ( 14) : 4, Sept. 20, 1913. 

 =Lonchura malabarica meridionalis (Mearns). See Friedmann, U.S. 



Nat. Mus. Bull. 153 (2) : 434, 1937; Delacour, Zoologica, New York 



28:82,85, 1943. 

 247534. Adult male. At the southern base of the Indunumara Mountains 



(about 10 miles southeast of Lake Rudolf), Northern Frontier District, 



Kenya Colony. July 16, 1912. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Orig- 

 inal number 23048. Childs Frick African Expedition (1911-1912). 

 Uroloncha acuticauda phaethontoptila Oberholser 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 16 (19) : 521, Nov. 18, 1926. 

 =Lonchura striata phaethontoptila (Oberholser) . See Orn. Soc. Japan, 



Handlist of the Japanese birds, ed. 3, rev., p. 9, 1942. 

 37817. Adult (sex not indicated). Northern Formosa. March 1862. 



Collected by Robert Swinhoe. Received from Henry B. Tristram (of 



whose private collection it once formed part) . 

 Uroloncha acuticauda lepidota Oberholser 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 16 (19) : 520, Nov. 18, 1926. 

 =Lonchura striata subsquamicollis (Stuart Baker), fide Deignan (ms.). 

 154014. Adult male. "Tyching"=:Ban Tha Chin (lat. 7°34' N., long. 



99°34' E.), Province of Trang, peninsular Thailand. May 23, 1896. 



Collected by William L. Abbott. 



