Chlorospingus ophthalmicus macarenae J.T. Zimmer

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 : 64-65

Chlorospingus ophthalmicus macarenae J.T. Zimmer

Chlorospingus ophthalmicus macarenae J.T. Zimmer, 1947: 4 (Mt. Macarena, Colombia; plateau at 411 feet elevation).

Now Chlorospingus ophthalmicus macarenae J.T. Zimmer, 1947 . See Storer, 1970: 257, Isler and Isler, 1999: 60–63, and Dickinson, 2003: 817.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 748394 , adult male, collected on the plateau at 4100 (not 411) ft, Serranía de la Macarena (5 Mt. Macarena ), 02.45N, 73.55W ( Paynter, 1997), Meta, Colombia, on 24 January 1942, by E. Thomas Gilliard, on the Mt. Macarena Expedition.

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed (on p. 6) five males (plus the holotype) and four females examined, all from Mt. Macarena. There are nine paratypes, all collected on Mt. Macarena between 17 and 26 January 1942 by Gilliard, but according to the labels, they are three males, one male?, three females, and two sex?. Paratypes: AMNH 343895–343903. Gilliard (1942) published a summary of this expedition. Wier et al. (2008) did not sample this subspecies.