Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, 1890

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 : 68-69

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627614
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scientific name	Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns
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Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns View in CoL

Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, 1890: 244 View in CoL (Fort Verde, Yavapai County, in central Arizona).

Now Carduelis tristis pallida ( Mearns, 1890) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1938: 296; Howell et al., 1968: 245; Middleton, 1993; Dickinson, 2003: 750; and Clement, 2010: 559.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 52666 View Materials , adult male, collected at Fort Verde, Arizona, on 3 May

1888, by Edgar A. Mearns. From the Mearns Collection (no. 6311).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mearns designated as holotype his no. 6311; this specimen bears an AMNH type label and the original label is marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Mearns. He gave measurements for 10 males and 11 females from Arizona and his type series included a ‘‘quite large series of winter specimens of both sexes’’ and six specimens in winter plumage collected by Scott, on which Allen had commented (in Scott, 1887: 198). Mearns’ paratypes from his series in AMNH are: Fort Verde , Arizona, AMNH 52667 View Materials (Mearns no. 5987), AMNH 52668 View Materials (5986), males, 20 January 1888 ; AMNH 52669 View Materials (4577), female, AMNH 52670 View Materials (4576), male, 6 March 1886 ; AMNH 52671 View Materials (3666) male, 30 December 1884 ; AMNH 52672 View Materials (3672), AMNH 52673 View Materials (3673), AMNH 52674 View Materials (3674), AMNH 52675 View Materials (3675), four females, 3 January 1885 ; AMNH 52676 View Materials (4342), AMNH 52677 View Materials (4344), AMNH 52678 View Materials (4346), AMNH 52679 View Materials (4348), two females, two males, 23 December 1885 ; AMNH 52680 View Materials (4559), female, 5 March 1886. Two additional Mearns specimens from this series came to AMNH with the Sennett Collection and are also paratypes of pallida: AMNH 83211 (4518, Sennett no. 5971), AMNH 83212 View Materials (4519, 5970), female, male, 1 March 1886 .

Of these paratypes, AMNH 52667 View Materials also bears an AMNH type label and is marked ‘‘Type of pallidus ’’ by Mearns ; it remains in the type collection with a label attached to explain its paratype status. AMNH 52676 View Materials is also marked ‘‘Type of pallidus ’’ by Mearns, but had no AMNH type label attached ; it is a paratype and remains in the regular collection.

The six paratypes collected by W.E.D. Scott are the following: Catalina Mills, Arizona, AMNH 83205 View Materials ( Scott no. 994, Sennett no. 3354, old AMNH no. 28731), female, 3 February 1886 ; AMNH 83206 View Materials (989, 3349, 28726) ,; AMNH 83207 View Materials (991,?, 28728), males, 19 December 1885 ; AMNH 83208 View Materials (993, 3353, 28730) ,; AMNH 83209 View Materials (992, 3352, 28729), males, 30 December 1885 ; AMNH 83210 View Materials (990, 3350, 28727), female, 19 December 1885. These six specimens had inadvertently been cataloged with the W.E.D. Scott Collection when it was purchased by AMNH (5

old AMNH no.) and the catalog is marked ‘‘Belong to Mr. Sennett—cataloged here by mistake.’’ When the Sennett Collection came to AMNH, they were then cataloged with the rest of the Sennett specimens. AMNH 83207 has both legs missing and neither a Scott nor a Sennett label is present; the AMNH label is tied on around the neck. Scott’s number was ascertained from the old catalog entry.

The holotype of pallidus is the only specimen among all of the above in AMNH that is in full breeding plumage.