Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman

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 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470278
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scientific name	Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman
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Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman, 1957: 380 (6 miles north-northeast of Amoloya del Río (5 9 kilometers south-southeast of Lerma), State of México).

Now Melospiza melodia villai Phillips and Dickerman, 1957 . See Paynter, 1970: 52, Byers et al., 1995: 229–233, Arcese et al., 2002: 6, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817693 View Materials , adult male (?), collected 6 mi NNE of Amoloya del Rio (5 9 km SSE of Lerma ), Mexico, Mexico, on 24 October 1956, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 7560). Exchanged from MMNH (no. 12500) to AMNH in 1986.

COMMENTS: The MMNH and RWD numbers were cited for the holotype in the original description., and 19 specimens were examined. Of the 18 paratypes two are in AMNH: AMNH 768836 View Materials ( MMNH no. 17003), immature?, El Rio (5 San Bernabe´), 14 November 1956, RWD no. 7644 ; AMNH 768837 View Materials (17005), immature male, km 100 Toluca-Norelia Rd. , 24 October 1956, RWD no. 7567. Dickerman (1963: 40, fig. 19) illustrated the range of villai along the Rio Lerma .