Brachyspiza capensis roraimae Chapman

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 : 14

Brachyspiza capensis roraimae Chapman

Brachyspiza capensis roraimae Chapman, 1929a: 5 (Philipp Camp, 6000 ft., Roraima, Venezuela).

Now Zonotrichia capensis roraimae (Chapman, 1929) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 584, Chapman, 1940: 398–399, Byers et al., 1995: 236–238, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 237162 , adult male, collected at Philipp Camp , 6000 ft, ca. 05.09N, 60.47W ( Paynter, 1982), Mt. Roraima, Venezuela, on 9 November 1927, by T. Donald Carter on the Lee Garnett Day Expedition (no. 692).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description, with 39 specimens from three localities listed as having been examined. However, a total of 45 specimens from these localities were cataloged in September and October 1928, and all would have been available to Chapman. The 44 paratypes are: AMNH 237133–237161, 237163–237177 (two males, one juvenile male from Paulo; four males, one juvenile male, five females from Rondon Camp; 16 males, four juvenile males, 11 females from Philipp Camp), all collected by T. Donald Carter on the Lee Garnett Day Expedition. Of these paratypes, AMNH 237135, male from Rondon Camp, was exchanged with USNM in September 1930, and AMNH 237161, male from Philipp Camp, was exchanged with FMNH in March 1941. Chapman (1931) published a joint report on the collections of the Lee Garnett Day Expedition to Mt. Roraima and the Tyler Duida Expedition to Mount Duida. He (1931: 7–10) described and pictured Philipp Camp. See also Tate (1928, 1930).