Oporornis tolmiei intermedia Phillips, 1947

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 8

Oporornis tolmiei intermedia Phillips

Oporornis tolmiei intermedia Phillips, 1947: 299 (Okanagan, British Columbia).

Now Geothlypis tolmiei monticola ( Phillips, 1947) . See Lowery and Monroe, 1968: 48; Pitocchelli, 1995; Dickerman and Parkes, 1997: 229; Curson, 2010b: 769; and Lovette et al., 2010: 764– 765.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 384003 , adult male, collected at Okanagan , British Columbia, Canada, on 23 June 1906, by Allan Brooks. From the Jonathan Dwight Collection (no. 16985).

COMMENTS: Phillips cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Because Phillips visited many collections while studying Oporornis tolmiei and did not indicate the number of specimens he examined, it has been impossible to determine paratypes.

Lowery and Monroe (1968: 48) placed this species in the large genus Geothlypis and considered intermedia a synonym of the nominate subspecies, G. t. tolmiei ; Pitocchelli (1995), Dickerman and Parkes (1997: 229), and Curson (2010b: 769) retained the genus Oporornis . Dickerman and Parkes (1997: 229) considered intermedia a synonym of O. t. tolmiei while Curson (2010b: 769) equated it with O. t. monticola . The recent studies of Lovette et al. (2010: 764–765) recommended that Oporornis be merged into Geothlypis .

Okanagan Centre, British Columbia, is at 50.02N, 119.23W (Times atlas).