Phrygilus unicolor grandis Chapman

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 : 22-23

Phrygilus unicolor grandis Chapman

Phrygilus unicolor grandis Chapman, 1915b: 651 (Paramo of Santa Isabel (alt. 12700 ft.), Central Andes, Columbia [sic]).

Now Phrygilus unicolor geospizopsis (Bonaparte, 1853) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 354–355, Meyer de Schauensee, 1951: 1098, and Dickinson, 2003: 788.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 112797 , adult male, collected at Santa Isabel , 12700 ft, ca. 0447N, 7526W ( Paynter, 1997), Quindio Andes, Colombia, on 20 September 1911, by A.A. Allen and L.E. Miller (no. 484).

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed 43 specimens from three localities in his type series, including the holotype. The 42 paratypes are: Ecuador, Quito, AMNH 41384 ; Colombia, Santa Isabel , AMNH 112792–112796 , 112798– 112807 , 11 males, four females, 1 juvenile sex ?; Ecuador, Mt. Chimborazo, AMNH 125056–125081 , 21 males, five females. Of these, AMNH 112793 and AMNH 112803 were exchanged with Outram Bangs in 1918 and are probably now in MCZ ; AMNH 125066 was exchanged with MZUSP in 1917 ; AMNH 125074 was exchanged with MCZ in 1928. Three specimens were exchanged to BIM in 1923, numbered there, and when the BIM collection was donated to AMNH in 1935, they were renumbered at AMNH. Original AMNH 125067 , 125070 , and 125078 were given BIM numbers 12582, 12580, and 12581 and were then renumbered AMNH 441631 , 441632 , and 441630, respectively. I did not find AMNH 112795 , 112800 , and 125077 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged with other institutions without the catalog having been marked .

See Chapman (1917) for a report on this and other collections from Colombia.