Peucaea ruficeps scottii Sennett

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

Peucaea ruficeps scottii Sennett

Peucaea ruficeps scottii Sennett, 1888: 42 (Pinal County, Arizona).

Now Aimophila ruficeps scottii ( Sennett, 1888) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 529–530, Byers et al., 1995: 296–297, Collins, 1999: 4, and Dickinson, 2003: 787.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 28315 , adult male, collected on San Pedro Slope , Pinal County, Arizona, on 14 March 1885, by W.E.D. Scott (no. 1884), from the W.E.D. Scott Collection ; and AMNH 83926 , adult male, collected on San Pedro Slope , Pinal County, Arizona, on 27 March 1885, by W.E.D. Scott (no. 1979), from the collection of G.B. Sennett (no. 5247) .

COMMENTS: Sennett designated the above two specimens as syntypes of scottii in the original description, citing Scott’s original field number in each case. Other specimens have no nomenclatural standing (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6).