Ammodramus caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight

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 caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight

Ammodramus caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight, 1887: 233 (Hillsborough, Albert Co., New Brunswick).

Now Ammodramus caudacutus subvirgatus Dwight, 1887 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 504–505, Zink and Avise, 1990, Greenlaw and Rising, 1994, Byers et al., 1995: 256–257, and Dickinson, 2003: 784.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 400757 ( Dwight no. 1240), juvenile male, 15 July 1886 ; AMNH 400767 (1500), adult male, 30 September 1886 ; AMNH 400795 (1239), adult female, 15 July 1886 ; and AMNH 400801 (1502), adult female, 30 September 1886, all collected at Hillsborough , 45.56N, 64.40W (Times Atlas), New Brunswick, Canada, by Jonathan Dwight, Jr. From the Dwight Collection .

COMMENTS: In the original description, Dwight (1887: 236) made it clear that the specimens he described and gave his collection numbers for should be considered his types. The above syntypes are four of the five specimens he listed by number. The fifth syntype, with his number 1261, adult male in breeding plumage, collected on 19 July 1886, at the same locality, did not come to AMNH with the Dwight Collection and I have found no record of where it might be. Because Dwight designated syntypes in the original description, other specimens have no nomenclatural standing (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6).