Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hartert, 1904

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 : 9

Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hartert

Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hartert, 1904: 197 (Aiderli in Turkestan).

Now Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hartert, 1904 . See Vaurie, 1956a: 7, and Dickinson, 2003: 780.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 715254 , adult male, collected at Aiderli, Turkestan, on 11 November 1899 (Russian date, according to Hartert, 1919: 161), by Zarudny (no. 1298). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited the Zarudny number of the type. There are 17 paratypes of pallidior in AMNH: AMNH 715255–715271, seven males, seven females, and three unsexed, from Vernyi, Ilyisk, and the Djarkent River, Turkestan, collected in February, September, October, and November 1899, and March 1900, by Zarudny. A number of other Turkestan specimens by other collectors are undated and are not considered paratypes. Other localities were mentioned in the original description.