Buarremon Ocai Lawrence

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 : 44

Buarremon Ocai Lawrence

Buarremon Ocai Lawrence, 1865a: 126 ( Mexico, Jalapa).

Now Pipilo ocai ocai (Lawrence, 1865) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 452, Sibley, 1950: 145, Paynter, 1970b: 168, and Dickinson, 2003: 796.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 41669, adult male, collected in Mexico, and AMNH 41670, adult male, collected in ‘‘Jalapa,’’ Mexico, received from R. Montes de Oca. From the G.N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Lawrence did not designate a type, but both of these specimens are marked ‘‘Type’’ by Lawrence and bear an AMNH type label. Only the male was described and only these two specimens of ocai came to AMNH with the Lawrence Collection. Sibley (1950: 145) discussed the type locality of ocai , and based on evidence provided by other montane species collected by Montes de Oca, restricted the type locality of this form to Las Vigas, 19.39N, 97.08W (Times Atlas), Veracruz, Mexico.