Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, 1890

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 : 68-69

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627614
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scientific name	Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns
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Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns View in CoL

Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, 1890: 244 View in CoL (Fort Verde, Yavapai County, in central Arizona).

Now Carduelis tristis pallida ( Mearns, 1890) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1938: 296; Howell et al., 1968: 245; Middleton, 1993; Dickinson, 2003: 750; and Clement, 2010: 559.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 52666 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Fort Verde, Arizona, on 3 May

1888, by Edgar A. Mearns. From the Mearns Collection (no. 6311).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mearns designated as holotype his no. 6311; this specimen bears an AMNH type label and the original label is marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Mearns. He gave measurements for 10 males and 11 females from Arizona and his type series included a ‘‘quite large series of winter specimens of both sexes’’ and six specimens in winter plumage collected by Scott, on which Allen had commented (in Scott, 1887: 198). Mearns’ paratypes from his series in AMNH are: Fort Verde , Arizona, AMNH 52667 About AMNH (Mearns no. 5987), AMNH 52668 About AMNH (5986), males, 20 January 1888 ; AMNH 52669 About AMNH (4577), female, AMNH 52670 About AMNH (4576), male, 6 March 1886 ; AMNH 52671 About AMNH (3666) male, 30 December 1884 ; AMNH 52672 About AMNH (3672), AMNH 52673 About AMNH (3673), AMNH 52674 About AMNH (3674), AMNH 52675 About AMNH (3675), four females, 3 January 1885 ; AMNH 52676 About AMNH (4342), AMNH 52677 About AMNH (4344), AMNH 52678 About AMNH (4346), AMNH 52679 About AMNH (4348), two females, two males, 23 December 1885 ; AMNH 52680 About AMNH (4559), female, 5 March 1886. Two additional Mearns specimens from this series came to AMNH with the Sennett Collection and are also paratypes of pallida: AMNH 83211 (4518, Sennett no. 5971), AMNH 83212 About AMNH (4519, 5970), female, male, 1 March 1886 .

Of these paratypes, AMNH 52667 About AMNH also bears an AMNH type label and is marked ‘‘Type of pallidus ’’ by Mearns ; it remains in the type collection with a label attached to explain its paratype status. AMNH 52676 About AMNH is also marked ‘‘Type of pallidus ’’ by Mearns, but had no AMNH type label attached ; it is a paratype and remains in the regular collection.

The six paratypes collected by W.E.D. Scott are the following: Catalina Mills, Arizona, AMNH 83205 About AMNH ( Scott no. 994, Sennett no. 3354, old AMNH no. 28731), female, 3 February 1886 ; AMNH 83206 About AMNH (989, 3349, 28726) ,; AMNH 83207 About AMNH (991,?, 28728), males, 19 December 1885 ; AMNH 83208 About AMNH (993, 3353, 28730) ,; AMNH 83209 About AMNH (992, 3352, 28729), males, 30 December 1885 ; AMNH 83210 About AMNH (990, 3350, 28727), female, 19 December 1885. These six specimens had inadvertently been cataloged with the W.E.D. Scott Collection when it was purchased by AMNH (5

old AMNH no.) and the catalog is marked ‘‘Belong to Mr. Sennett—cataloged here by mistake.’’ When the Sennett Collection came to AMNH, they were then cataloged with the rest of the Sennett specimens. AMNH 83207 has both legs missing and neither a Scott nor a Sennett label is present; the AMNH label is tied on around the neck. Scott’s number was ascertained from the old catalog entry.

The holotype of pallidus is the only specimen among all of the above in AMNH that is in full breeding plumage.