Melospiza sanaka McGregor

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 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
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scientific name	Melospiza sanaka McGregor
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Melospiza sanaka McGregor, 1901 [51900]: 8 (Sanak Island, Alaska).

Now Melospiza melodia sanaka McGregor, 1900 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 599–600, Byers et al., 1995:

229–233, Arcese et al., 2002, Dickinson, 2003: 781, and Pruett and Winker (2010).

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 405699 View Materials , adult male, collected on Sanak Island, 54.26N, 162.40W (Times Atlas), Aleutian Islands , Alaska, on 13 June 1894, by Chase Littlejohn (nos. 582 and 721). From the collection of Richard C. McGregor (no. 3361) via the Dwight Collection (no. 39137). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, McGregor cited his collection number of the holotype and noted that specimens came from Sanak and Popoff islands , Alaska. Apparently , all of McGregor’s own specimens were in worn plumage and his description was based on Sanak Island specimens in fresh plumage collected by C. Littlejohn. Based on his table of measurements, he had at least five male and five female specimens of his new form. There are five paratypes in AMNH, all from Sanaka Island and all from the Dwight Collection , some of which appear to have been obtained from Littlejohn directly and to have no McGregor or Littlejohn numbers: AMNH 405697 View Materials (Dwight no. 39136, McGregor no. 1568, Littlejohn no. 954), male, 26 May 1894 ; AMNH 405698 View Materials (30117, –, –), male, 29 May 1894 ; AMNH 405700 View Materials (30118, –, –), female, 16 May 1894 ; AMNH 405701 View Materials (39135, 1569, 953), female, 18 May 1894 ; AMNH 405702 View Materials (39136, 3362, 60, and 582), female, 23 May 1894. There are no specimens from Popoff Island in AMNH. Dickinson (2003: 781) did not recognize this subspecies .

There is a note at the bottom of this description: ‘‘An author’s edition of 100 copies was distributed Nov. 25, 1900,’’ which was prior to the publication date of January 1901. This was also mentioned in American Ornithologists’ Union (1957: 633).