Icterus sclateri alticola Miller and Griscom

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 49-50

Icterus sclateri alticola Miller and Griscom

Icterus sclateri alticola Miller and Griscom, 1925: 4 (Progreso, Guatemala).

Now Icterus pustulatus alticola Miller and Griscom, 1925 . See Griscom, 1932: 397; Hellmayr,

1937: 155–156; Blake, 1968: 157; Dickinson, 2003: 771; and Fraga, 2011: 763.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 398792 , adult male, collected at Progreso, 17.18N, 90.08W (Times atlas), Guatemala, on 17 September 1924, by A.W. Anthony (no. 830). From the Jonathan Dwight Collection (no. 58978).

COMMENTS: Miller and Griscom gave the Dwight Collection number of the holotype in the original description and listed one Guatemalan specimen collected by von Patten, three males, three females, one sex?, collected at Progreso, one female from Volcan Zunil, and one male from El Tanque, Nicaragua. At the time of publication of this name, Miller and Griscom (1925: 1) were working on their Nicaraguan collection and had borrowed specimens from Dwight and others for comparison. It is not now possible to tell which specimens from Progreso are paratypes of alticola as all of the Dwight specimens were cataloged together and Griscom identified and initialed them all as alticola. As the description was published in 1925, it seemed possible that only specimens collected in July 1924 were available. But this is not correct, because the type was collected in September 1924. Later, Griscom (1932: 397), when working with the entire Dwight Collection, noted that he had 22 specimens of alticola; there are 15 alticola, including the type, in AMNH. Because the collection was divided with MCZ, the remaining specimens may be in that institution and some of them may be paratypes. There are, however, two definite paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 42020, male, Guatemala, from Dr. v[on] P[atten], from the Lawrence Collection; and AMNH 144752, male, El Tanque, Nicaragua, 11 April 1917, by Miller, Griscom and Richardson (now considered a specimen of I. pustulatus sclateri ). I did not find the female specimen from Volcan Zunil, Guatemala, listed by Miller and Griscom (1925: 4), and it was perhaps also borrowed. See Griscom (1932: 11–15, 420, map) for a summary of Anthony’s collecting localities.