Myospiza aurifrons zamorae 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 : 20

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scientific name	Myospiza aurifrons zamorae Chapman
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Myospiza aurifrons zamorae Chapman, 1925a: 2 (Zamora, Rio Zamora, eastern Ecuador).

Now Ammodramus aurifrons aurifrons (Spix, 1825) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 483–484, Byers et al., 1995: 264–265, and Dickinson, 2003: 785.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 168146 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Zamora , 04.04S, 78.58W ( Paynter, 1993), Rio Zamora, Ecuador, on 26 November 1920, by George K. Cherrie (no. 22599). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed 28 specimens of zamorae from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

that he examined, including the holotype. Of the 27 paratypes, I found 26: Colombia, La Morelia, AMNH 117097–117101 About AMNH ; Florencia , AMNH 117103 About AMNH , 117104 About AMNH , 117169–117171 About AMNH ; Ecuador, Zamora , AMNH 130284–130287 About AMNH , AMNH 168143–168145 About AMNH , AMNH 168147–168151 About AMNH ; Peru, La Merced , AMNH 169334 About AMNH , 169335 About AMNH ; Perene´ , AMNH 169336 About AMNH ; Perico , AMNH 182233 About AMNH . I did not find the juvenile specimen that Chapman listed from Monte Allegre, Peru. AMNH 168150 About AMNH was exchanged to MCZ in 1928 .