Sicalis flaveola holti Miller

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 : 26

Sicalis flaveola holti Miller

Sicalis flaveola holti Miller, 1925: 254 (Monte Serrat, 2,700 feet, Serra do Itatiaya, Sao Paulo [sic], Brazil).

Now Sicalis flaveola brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1789) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 323–324, Paynter, 1970b: 126–127, and Dickinson, 2003: 791.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 189299 , adult female, collected on Pico das Agulhas Negras (5 Monte Serrat, 2700 ft, Serra do Itatiaia ), 22.23S, 44.38W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 22 December 1921, by Ernest G. Holt (no. 136).

COMMENTS: Miller gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; a typographical error in the description listed it as a male, but Miller’s only two specimens from the type locality were adult females. Eleven specimens comprised the type series. Specimens that would have been available to Miller in 1925 are those from the Lawrence Collection and those collected by Rollo H. Beck in Bahia in 1916, as well as the additional female collected by Holt on Monte Serrat. The 10 paratypes are: Lawrence Collection, Bahia: immature [female], AMNH 41863 ; adult, AMNH 41864 ; Brazil, AMNH 41867 [female]. Beck collection, Bahia: males, AMNH 163560 (Beck no. 5841), 4 July ; AMNH 163561 (5718), 2 June ; AMNH 163562 (5732), 9 June ; juvenile [male], AMNH 163563 (5133), 9 June ; females, AMNH 163564 (5817), 22 June ; AMNH 163565 (5751), 10 June. Monte Serrat, AMNH 189300 , female, 29 December 1921, by Holt (no. 193) .

Holt (1928) wrote a full report on his collecting in the Serra do Itatiaia and called attention to the fact that his collecting locality was in the state of Rio de Janeiro, not São Paulo, as had been given by Miller ( Holt, 1928: 253, 316).