Ammodramus halophilus McGregor

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 : 16-17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
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scientific name	Ammodramus halophilus McGregor
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Ammodramus halophilus McGregor, 1898: 265 (Abreojos Point, Lower California).

Now Passerculus sandwichensis guttatus (Lawrence, 1867) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 492, Paynter, 1970b: 73, Wheelwright and Rising, 1993, Byers

et al., 1995: 251–254, and Dickinson, 2003: 783– 784.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 400262 View Materials , adult male, collected at Punta Abreojos , 26.44N, 113.40W (Times Atlas), Baja California (5 Abreojos Point, Lower California), Mexico, on 19 April 1897, by Richard C. McGregor (no. 1001). From the Dwight Collection (no. 38303). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: McGregor cited his collection number of the holotype in the original description. McGregor’s (1898: 266) party secured 16 specimens on 19 April and additional specimens on 17 June. Fifteen paratypes, all from Punta Abreojos and collected on those dates, are in AMNH: AMNH 70325 View Materials , male, was part of an exchange to AMNH from McGregor (field no. 1432). Eleven paratypes came with the Dwight Collection ; in the following list the AMNH number is followed by the Dwight number, the third number was pencilled on each label and is evidently a field number, the fourth number was added in red ink and was only on specimens that came from Dwight: males, AMNH 400263 View Materials (38305, 553, 1003), AMNH 400264 View Materials (383307, 548, 1007), AMNH 400265 View Materials (38312, 1436, 1010), AMNH 400266 View Materials (38311, 1440, 1009), AMNH 400267 View Materials (38306, 561, 1004) ; females, AMNH 400268 View Materials (38307, 555, 1005), AMNH 400269 View Materials (38308, 549, 1006), AMNH 400270 View Materials (38310, 1435, 1008), AMNH 400271 View Materials (38314, 1433, 1012), AMNH 400272 View Materials (38315, 1428, 1013), AMNH 400273 View Materials (38316, 1442, 1014). One paratype, AMNH 518721 View Materials , male, was collected by Anthony, had the field no. 560, was purchased by Rothschild from the dealer C.K. Worthen, and came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Two paratypes came with the Leonard C. Sanford Collection: females, AMNH 762159 View Materials (Sanford no. 9013, field no. 559), the numbers 8809 and 14540 also appear on this label ; AMNH 762160 View Materials (9796, 1427), the number 15518 also appears .