Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Myospiza aurifrons zamorae
Chapman
Myospiza aurifrons zamorae
Chapman, 1925a: 2
(Zamora, Rio Zamora, eastern
Ecuador
).
Now
Ammodramus aurifrons aurifrons
(Spix, 1825)
. See
Hellmayr, 1938: 483–484
,
Byers et al., 1995: 264–265
, and Dickinson, 2003: 785.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 168146
, adult male, collected at
Zamora
,
04.04S
,
78.58W
(
Paynter, 1993
),
Rio Zamora
,
Ecuador
, on
26 November 1920
, by
George K. Cherrie
(no. 22599).
COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and listed
28 specimens
of
zamorae
from
Colombia
,
Ecuador
, and
Peru
that he examined, including the
holotype
.
Of
the
27 paratypes
, I found 26:
Colombia
,
La Morelia
,
AMNH 117097–117101
;
Florencia
,
AMNH 117103
,
117104
,
117169–117171
;
Ecuador
,
Zamora
,
AMNH 130284–130287
,
AMNH 168143–168145
,
AMNH 168147–168151
;
Peru
,
La Merced
,
AMNH 169334
,
169335
;
Perene´
,
AMNH 169336
;
Perico
,
AMNH 182233
. I did not find the juvenile specimen that
Chapman
listed from
Monte Allegre
,
Peru
.
AMNH 168150
was exchanged to
MCZ
in 1928
.