Myospiza manimbe nigrostriata Cherrie

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 : 19

Myospiza manimbe nigrostriata Cherrie

Myospiza manimbe nigrostriata Cherrie, 1916a: 189 (Rio Negro, Paraguayan Chaco).

Now Ammodramus humeralis xanthornus Darwin, 1839 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 481, Byers et al., 1995: 263–264, and Dickinson, 2003: 785.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 127061 , female, collected on the Rio Negro , Paraguay, on 12 November 1913, by G.K. Cherrie (no. 16933) and L.E. Miller on the Roosevelt Expedition.

COMMENTS: Cherrie gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description but included no information on the size of his type series. According to the AMNH catalog, a single specimen was collected.

Cherrie (1916: 189, footnote) noted that the Rio Negro, a small tributary of the Rio Pilcomayo, 25.21S, 57.42W ( Paynter, 1989), entered it about 35 or 40 mi from its mouth. This side-excursion on the Rio Pilcomayo, taking place before the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition, is briefly described by Cherrie (in Naumburg, 1930: 6). The cryptic note on the reverse of the AMNH label, ‘‘Munich Mus. 1922,’’ may refer to Naumberg having sent or taken this type specimen to Munich when she was working on the birds of the Roosevelt- Rondon Expedition, for she discussed it under Myospiza h. humeralis ( Naumburg, 1930: 353–355) . She considered it to be an aberrant individual of M. h. dorsalis, a form considered a synonym of M. h. xanthornus by Hellmayr (1938: 480–482). Also on the reverse of the AMNH label is the identification Myospiza h. dorsalis with the initials ‘‘A[lexander] W[etmore],’’ who had compared the type of dorsalis with that of nigrostriata and considered them identical ( Wetmore, 1926: 429–430).