Melospiza melodia yuriria Phillips and Dickerman

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 : 12-13

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scientific name	Melospiza melodia yuriria Phillips and Dickerman
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Melospiza melodia yuriria Phillips and Dickerman, 1957: 381 (Yuriria, Guanajuato).

Now Melospiza melodia yuriria Phillips and Dickerman, 1957 . See Paynter, 1970: 52, Byers et al.,

1995: 229–233, Arcese et al., 2002: 6, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817692 View Materials , male adult?, collected at Yuriria , 20.12N, 101.10W (Times Atlas), Guanajuato, Mexico, on 21 November 1956, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 7723). Exchanged from MMNH (no. 12490) to AMNH in 1986. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The MMNH and RWD nos. were cited in the original description; five specimens were examined. One paratype is in AMNH: AMNH 768828 View Materials ( MMNH no. 16819), female, 1 mi SE Chamacuaro , Guanajuato, 3 August 1956, RWD no. 7188 .

The authors queried whether the holotype was an adult specimen as the testes measured only 1.5 mm. See Dickerman (1963: 40, fig. 19) for a map of the distribution of yuriria. Arcese et al. (2002: 6) synonymized yuriria with M. m. adusta.