Emberizoides duidae Chapman, 1929

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 27

Emberizoides duidae Chapman

Emberizoides duidae Chapman, 1929b: 25 (Savanna Hills, Mt. Duida, Venezuela; 4400 ft.).

Now Emberizoides duidae Chapman, 1929 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 612–613, Paynter, 1970: 130, Ridgely and Tudor, 1989: 471, and Dickinson, 2003: 791.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 245937 , adult male, collected on summit of Savanna Hills , 4400 ft, ca. 03.25N, 65.38W ( Paynter, 1982), Mount Duida, Amazonas, Venezuela, on 2 February 1929, by George H.H. Tate on the Tyler Duida Expedition (no. 5965).

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, noting that he had examined four males and one female from the type locality. Only four specimens were cataloged at AMNH, and there is no record in the catalog of a male specimen collected at 4700 ft. The following three specimens are paratypes: AMNH 271605 , male, 4400 ft ; AMNH 271606 , male, 5100 ft ; AMNH 271607 , female, 6700 ft. Of these three, AMNH 271606 was exchanged to Colección Phelps, Caracas, probably before the description of this taxon was actually published, as Chapman (1929b: 26) only gave measurements of the two males from 4400 ft and the female from 6700 ft.

Hellmayr (1938: 612–613) recognized duidae as a subspecies of E. herbicola and considered it an altitudinal subspecies; this was followed by Paynter (1970b: 130). Ridgely and Tudor (1989: 471) and Dickinson (2003: 791) considered duidae a full species.

Chapman (1931) compared the higher altitude avifaunas of mounts Roraima and Duida and E. duidae is illustrated in figure 26, p. 41. See Tate and Hitchcock (1930) for a report on the Mt. Duida area.