Emberiza cia, Linnaeus, 1766

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 : 4-5

Emberiza cia par Hartert

Emberiza cia par Hartert, 1904: 184 (Gudan, Transkaspien).

Now Emberiza cia par Hartert, 1904. See Dickinson, 2003: 777.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 716641 , adult male, collected at Gaudan (5 Gudan), Turkmenistan, on 13 May 1892, by N. Zarudny (5 Sarudny). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type specimen number 1767, bearing the above data. The following specimens from the Rothschild Collection are considered paratypes: AMNH 716636– 716640 , collected in Transcaspia in January 1900 by Schlüter ; AMNH 716643–716645 , collected in Issik-Kul , Turkestan, in February and March 1901 by Tancre ; and AMNH 716648 , collected in Punja Maklan , Afghanistan in April 1874, collector unknown. Other specimens were either collected after par was described or had incomplete data. Hartert (1904: 184) also noted that the form perhaps occurred in northern India in winter, but because he expessed doubt concerning its inclusion, I have not considered AMNH 716649 collected at Simla, India, on 17 November 1880 by Elwes a paratype ( ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1). I was able to determine from Rothschild’s partial list of purchases that he was buying specimens from Schlüter between 1899 and 1902 and that he purchased Tancre’s Issik-Kul collection on 1 January 1903 ; therefore material from these collectors would have been available to Hartert.

Seltzer (1962: 666) identified Gaudan as a station on the Iran border, 20 mi south of Ashgabat (5 Ashkhabad), 37.58N, 58.24E (Times Atlas).