Melozone leucotis nigrior Miller and Griscom

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 : 45

Melozone leucotis nigrior Miller and Griscom

Melozone leucotis nigrior Miller and Griscom, 1925: 4 (Matagalpa, 2300 ft., Nicaragua).

Now Melozone leucotis nigrior Miller and Griscom, 1925 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 474, Howell and

Webb, 1995: 696–697, and Dickinson, 2003: 798.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 144638 , adult male, collected at Matagalpa, 2300 ft, 12.52N, 85.58W (Times Atlas), Nicaragua, on 21 April 1917, by W. deW. Miller (no. 534), L. Griscom, and W.B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series was said to comprise eight males, seven females, three sex?, and one juvenile. There are, in fact, nine females in the series used, and perhaps the ‘‘7’’ was a misprint for ‘‘9,’’ as I can see no way to exclude two of them. All of them would have been available to Miller and Griscom. The paratypes are: AMNH 103040 , 103041 , male and female, Chontales, February 1908 ; AMNH 103229– 103234 , two males, four females, Muy Muy, July 1908 ; AMNH 103498 , 103499 , male and female, Quilali, January 1909 ; AMNH 103821–103824 , two males, one female, one female juvenile, Uluce, July 1909 ; AMNH 144637 , female, Matagalpa, March 1917 ; and AMNH 423592–423596 , one male, one female, three sex?, Matagalpa, January-February 1917. All of these specimens were collected by W.B. Richardson except AMNH 144637 , which was collected by Miller, Griscom, and Richardson.