Ammodramus savannarum intricatus Hartert, 1907

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 : 18

Ammodramus savannarum intricatus Hartert

Ammodramus savannarum intricatus Hartert, 1907: 73 (El Valle, San Domingo).

Now Ammodramus savannarum intricatus Hartert, 1907 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 497, Byers et al., 1995: 261–263, Vickery, 1996, and Latta et al., 2006: 203.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 518574 , adult male, collected at El Valle , Dominican Republic (5 San Domingo), on 16 January 1907, by A. Hyatt Verrill (no. 4167). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Verrill’s number of the holotype in the original description, saying that two pairs were collected (i.e., two pairs in the Rothschild Collection). The number 4167 appears on the holotype, which is the only specimen that bears a number, probably added by Hartert to distinguish it. The three paratypes are: AMNH 518572 , female, 18 January ; AMNH 518573 , female, 16 January ; AMNH 518575 , male, 17 January, all collected at El Valle in 1907. Other specimens collected by Verrill on the same trip were purchased by AMNH in 1908 and are not part of the type series. Both the Rothschild and the AMNH series were purchased from the Kny-Scheerer Co., a New York City based source of scientific supplies, including natural history specimens. According to correspondence (late 19th and early 20th centuries) in the Department of Ornithology Archives , they also had a ‘‘European Establishment.’’