Emberiza pyrrhuloides reiseri Hartert

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 : 9-10

Emberiza pyrrhuloides reiseri Hartert

Emberiza pyrrhuloides reiseri Hartert, 1904: 199 (Lamia, Thessalien).

Now Emberiza schoeniclus reiseri Hartert, 1904 . See Vaurie, 1959: 704, and Dickinson, 2003: 780.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 715064 , male, collected at Lamia , 38.55N, 22.26E (Times Atlas), Greece, on 4 December 1901. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave the above data for the holotype and added the number 10009, which appears on the original label and may have been added by Hartert himself. Specimens in the Rothschild Collection were not cataloged, but occasionally Hartert would add a number, often a permutation of the date of collection, so that the type was uniquely identified.

There are three paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 715065 , male, 6 December 1901 ; AMNH 715066 , female, 8 February 1903, Strimeneas coll. ; AMNH 715067 , female, 23 January 1903, Strimeneas coll., all collected at Lamia , Greece. It is probable that all of the specimens came from the Strimeneas collection. There is another specimen of this form, AMNH 715242 , from Lamia, labeled Emb. tschusii tschusii by Hartert and thus not part of his type series of reiseri ; its label and handwriting exactly match that on the holotype and AMNH 715065 . Unfortunately, the locality had been mistranscribed on the Rothschild label as Lermier, Greece .