Junco oregonus

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 : 16

Junco oregonus [sic] couesi Dwight

Junco oregonus [sic] couesi Dwight, 1918: 291 (Okanagan, British Columbia).

Now Junco hyemalis montanus Ridgway, 1898 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 547, Miller, 1941: 408–409, Byers et al., 1995: 246–249, Nolan et al., 2002, and Dickinson, 2003: 783.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 402384 , adult male, collected in the Okanagan Valley , British Columbia, Canada, on 14 May 1906, by Allan Brooks. From the Dwight Collection (no. 16969).

COMMENTS: Dwight cited his collection number of the holotype in the original description. He did not give the number of specimens in his type series but listed localities from which they came. However, none of the specimens in AMNH are annotated with the name couesi and initialed by Dwight, so I was unable to determine which other specimens he might have considered to belong to that form.

Miller (1941: 408–409) studied Dwight’s material and decided that couesi ‘‘is a synonym partly of shufeldti and partly of montanus, but the type is an example of montanus.’’