Melospiza fasciata ingersolli McGregor

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 : 11

Melospiza fasciata ingersolli McGregor

Melospiza fasciata ingersolli McGregor, 1899a: 35 (Battle Creek, California).

Now Melospiza melodia merrilli Brewster, 1896 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 599, Byers et al., 1995: 229– 233, Arcese et al., 2002, Dickinson, 2003: 781, and Pruett and Winker (2010).

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 405733 , adult male, collected at Battle Creek , California, on 19 October 1898, by R.C. McGregor (no. 2222). From the Dwight Collection (no. 39211).

COMMENTS: McGregor cited his unique number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had six specimens, four (including the type) from Battle Creek , one from Enterprise, CA, and one from St. Helena, CA. The following are his five paratypes: AMNH 405734 (Dwight no. 39160, McGregor no. 2234), male, Battle Creek, 26 October 1898, ‘‘intermediate nearer ingersolli ’’ ; AMNH 405754 (39212, –), male, Battle Creek , 13 October 1898, marked ‘‘cotype’’ and ‘‘examined by R[obert] R[idgway]’’ ; AMNH 405755 (39214, 2221), male, Battle Creek , 16 October 1898, marked ‘‘cotype’ ’; AMNH 405758 (39221, 1345), female, St. Helena, 22 December 1897, all collected by McGregor ; and AMNH 405765 (39222, 1564), male, Enterprise , 15 October 1896, by G.F. Breminger, the latter two specimens now identified as M. m. morphna .

There are many places in California named Battle Creek. McGregor said that his collecting locality was 2 mi from the Sacramento River, the nearest post office being Balls Ferry, Shasta County. Ball’s Ferry on the Sacramento River is ca. 40.30N, 122.18W.