Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren, 1921b: 114 (Lumbo, Portuguese E. Africa). Now Passer diffusus mosambicus van Someren, 1921. See Hartert, 1928: 198; Dickinson, 2003: 717; Fry and Keith, 2004: 7–9; and Summers- Smith, 2009: 803–804. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719795, adult female, collected at Lumbo, 15.00S, 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique (= Portuguese East Africa), on 13 July 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Van Someren designated the holotype in the original description and said that he had six specimens from northern Mozambique and eastern Nyasaland. The type is the only van Someren specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

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 10, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954