摘要：The name ‘holoxanthus’, when applied to the ploceine weavers of Africa, has long dis- appeared from the ornithological literature. It was the name originally given by Hart- laub (1891) to a type of ‘golden weaver’ collected in early 1890 by Friedrich Bohndorff along the Ruvu River near Bagamoyo, Tanzania. The type specimen (an adult male) is currently housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York along with one female specimen (LeCroy 2014); earlier, Shelley (1905) had described two males and females then held in the British Museum collection, although Hartlaub (op. cit.) only mentioned the holotype.
