Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman

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 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470278
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scientific name	Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman
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Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman, 1957: 380 (6 miles north-northeast of Amoloya del Río (5 9 kilometers south-southeast of Lerma), State of México).

Now Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman, 1957 . See Paynter, 1970: 52, Byers et al., 1995: 229–233, Arcese et al., 2002: 6, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817693 About AMNH , adult male (?), collected 6 mi NNE of Amoloya del Rio (5 9 km SSE of Lerma ), Mexico, Mexico, on 24 October 1956, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 7560). Exchanged from MMNH (no. 12500) to AMNH in 1986.

COMMENTS: The MMNH and RWD numbers were cited for the holotype in the original description., and 19 specimens were examined. Of the 18 paratypes two are in AMNH: AMNH 768836 About AMNH ( MMNH no. 17003), immature?, El Rio (5 San Bernabe´), 14 November 1956, RWD no. 7644 ; AMNH 768837 About AMNH (17005), immature male, km 100 Toluca-Norelia Rd. , 24 October 1956, RWD no. 7567. Dickerman (1963: 40, fig. 19) illustrated the range of villai along the Rio Lerma .

References

Arcese, P., M. K. Sogge, A. B. Marr, and P. A. Patten. 2002. Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia). In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America. No. 704. Philadelphia: Birds of North America, Inc.

Byers, C., J. Curson, and U. Olsson. 1995. Sparrows and buntings of North America and the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 334 pp., 39 pls.

Dickerman, R. W. 1963. The Song Sparrows of the Mexican plateau. Minnesota Museum of Natural History, Occasional Papers 9: ix + 79 pp.

Phillips, A. R., and R. W. Dickerman. 1957. Notes on the Song Sparrows of the Mexican plateau. Auk 74: 376 - 382.