Myospiza cherriei Chapman, 1914

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 : 20

Myospiza cherriei Chapman

Myospiza cherriei Chapman, 1914a: 183 (Villavicencio (alt. 1600 ft.), Llanos at eastern base of Eastern Andes, Colombia).

Now Ammodramus aurifrons cherriei (Chapman, 1914) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 484, Byers et al., 1995: 264–265, Dickinson, 2003: 785.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 122770 , female, collected at Villavicencio , 1600 ft, 04.09S, 73.37W ( Paynter, 1997), eastern base of the eastern Andes, Meta, Colombia, on 12 March 1913, by George K. Cherrie (no. 16562).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. There is one paratype: AMNH 122771, juvenile, from the same locality on 11 March 1913 collected by Cherrie (no. 16545).

Although Chapman (1917: 567) listed three specimens of cherriei , there were only two specimens in the type series and they are the only two in AMNH collected before 1940. Chapman (1917: 567) had perhaps borrowed a third specimen for comparison when writing the later paper.