Aimophila rufescens gigas Griscom

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 : 21-22

Aimophila rufescens gigas Griscom

Aimophila rufescens gigas Griscom, 1930: 9 (Nebaj, 50 miles north of Quiche´, alt. about 6700 ft., Guatemala).

Now Aimophila rufescens pectoralis Dickey and van Rossem, 1927 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 525– 526, Paynter, 1970a: 102, Dickerman, 1987b: 81, Byers et al., 1995: 298–300, and Dickinson, 2003: 787.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 397932 , adult male, collected at Nebaj, ca. 6700 ft, 15.24N, 91.08W ( USBGN, 1965), 50 mi north of Quiche´ , Guatemala, on 29 April 1927, by

Alfred W. Anthony (no. 5576). From the Jonathan Dwight Collection (no. 62955).

COMMENTS: Griscom cited the Dwight Collection number of the holotype in the original description and listed the localities and number of specimens in his type series. Of the eight localities and 50 specimens listed, including the holotype, the following 37 paratypes are in AMNH: Antigua, AMNH 397904–397906 , three males ; La Montanita , AMNH 397907 , male ; Momostenango , AMNH 397908–397910 , three males ; Chichicastenango , AMNH 397911– 397915 , four males, one female ; Panajachel , AMNH 397916–397928 , AMNH 397931 , three males, three females, eight immatures ; San Lucas , AMNH 397929 , AMNH 397933– 397938 , AMNH 406710 , seven males, one female ; Nebaj , AMNH 397930 , male ; Lake Amatitlan , AMNH 399315 , AMNH 399316 , two males .

For the complete report on this collection, see Griscom (1932b). After its publication and before the collection was cataloged at AMNH, a large number of the specimens were retained at MCZ. The remaining paratypes are probably there.