Sporophila aurita murallae 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 : 30

Sporophila aurita murallae Chapman

Sporophila aurita murallae Chapman, 1915b: 649 (La Muralla (alt. 600 ft.), Caquetá, Colombia).

Now Sporophila murallae Chapman, 1915 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 193–194, Stiles, 1996, and Ridgely and Tudor, 2009: 636.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 117054 , adult male, collected at Morelia (5 La Muralla and Murelia, as on field label), 600 ft, 01.31N, 75.41W ( Paynter, 1997), Rio Bodoquera , Caquetá, Colombia, on 11 July 1912, by Leo E. Miller (no. 3605).

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and based his description on three males from Morelia. The two paratypes are: AMNH 117052 and 117053, both collected by Miller on 12 July 1912. AMNH 117053 was exchanged to BMNH in May 1921.

Hellmayr (1938: 193) considered murallae a subspecies of S. aurita . Stiles (1996) discussed this form at length and suggested ( Stiles, 1996: 103) that murallae be considered an allospecies in the superspecies americana . This was followed by Dickinson (2003: 792). Chapman (1917) published his major work on the distribution of birds in Colombia and included a report on this expedition by L. Miller. In this, he ( Chapman, 1917: 48) correctly spelled the type locality, and Stiles (1996: 104) later called attention to the misspelling.