Tanagra mesochrysa media 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

Tanagra mesochrysa media J.T. Zimmer

Tanagra mesochrysa media J.T. Zimmer, 1943b: 19 (Chaupe, northern Perú; altitude 6100 feet).

Now Euphonia mesochrysa media (J.T. Zimmer, 1943) . See Storer, 1970: 351, Isler and Isler, 1999: 249–250, and Dickinson, 2003: 822.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 181666 , adult male, collected at Chaupe , 6100 ft, ca. 05.10S, 79.10W ( Vaurie, 1972), northern Peru, on 19 February 1923, by Harry Watkins (no. 7026).

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH

number of the holotype in the original description; he had 13 specimens in his type series. Eight of the 12 paratypes, all from Peru, are in AMNH: Chaupe, AMNH 181661–181665 , 181668 , three males, three females, January–March 1923, H. Watkins ; Uscho (5 Uchco), about 50 mi east of Chachapoyas, AMNH 235200 , male, 6 November 1925, Watkins ; mouth of the Rio Curaray , AMNH 256859 , male, 3 November 1925, Olallas. The remaining four paratypes are one female from Huachipa borrowed from FMNH and three males borrowed from ANSP by Zimmer. The holotype and paratypes of media from Chaupe are also paratypes of tavarae (see below) .