Spinus nigricauda Chapman

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 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627600
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B4687A0-9E46-FF8E-FF70-764DFE991351
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Spinus nigricauda Chapman
status

Treatment

Spinus nigricauda Chapman, 1912: 160 (Paramo, Santa Isabel, alt. 12700 ft, Central Andes, Colombia).

Now Carduelis spinescens nigricauda ( Chapman, 1912) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1938: 273; Howell, et al., 1968: 240; Dickinson, 2003: 750; and Clement, 2010: 549.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 112752 View Materials , adult male, collected on the Paramo of Santa Isabel , 12,700 ft, ca. 04.47N, 75.26W ( Paynter, 1997), Central Andes, Colombia, on 15 September 1911, by Arthur A. Allen and Leo E. Miller (no. 392). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Chapman based his description on two specimens which he listed as adult males and gave the AMNH number of the holotype as AMNH 112752. This holotype was unsexed by the collectors. The paratype is AMNH 112753, adult male, collected at the type locality on 20 September 1911 by Allen and Miller (no. 515). Chapman (1917b: 32–40) described this expedition and the collecting localities.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Fringillidae
Genus	Spinus