Tanagra xanthogaster dilutior J.T. Zimmer

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 : 89-90

Tanagra xanthogaster dilutior J.T. Zimmer

Tanagra xanthogaster dilutior J.T. Zimmer, 1943b: 6 (Orosa, south bank of the Rio Amazonas, northeastern Perú).

Now Euphonia xanthogaster dilutior (J.T. Zimmer) . See Storer, 1970: 353, Isler and Isler, 1999: 252–254, and Dickinson, 2003: 822.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 232736 , adult male, collected at Orosa , 03.26S, 72.08W ( Stephens and Traylor, 1983), south bank of the Rio Amazonas, Loreto, Peru, on 27 September 1926, by the Olallas.

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed the specimens he examined. The list includes 12 males and four females, but in the text he noted that he had 14 males. There are 13 males, plus the type, and four females that are now in AMNH and are marked dilutior by Zimmer. These 17 specimens are considered paratypes of dilutior: Peru, Orosa, AMNH 232737– 232739 , males, AMNH 232762 , female ; Puerto Indiana , AMNH 232740–232743 , males, AMNH 232761 , female ; Apayacu , AMNH 232735 , male ; Sarayacu , AMNH 238583 , 238584 , 512006 , males ; Legarto , AMNH 239559 , 239561 , females. Colombia, Loretoyacu, AMNH 512003 , 512004 , males .

For a discussion of the Olalla locality of Orosa, see Wiley (2010: 39–40).