Melospiza melodia azteca Dickerman

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 : 12

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scientific name	Melospiza melodia azteca Dickerman
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Melospiza melodia azteca Dickerman, 1963: 46 (Lago de Zumpango, 19.46N, 99.05W (Times Atlas), Edo. México, Mexico).

Now Melospiza melodia azteca Dickerman, 1963 . See Paynter, 1970: 52, Byers et al., 1995: 229– 233, Arcese et al., 2002: 6, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817695 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Lago de Zumpango , Mexico,

Mexico, on 10 November 1956, by Robert

W. Dickerman (no. 7640). On exchange from MMNH (no. 16870) to AMNH in 1986.

COMMENTS: Dickerman cited the MMNH and RWD nos. in the original description and noted that he had examined 144 specimens. Of the 143 paratypes the following are at AMNH: Lago de Zumpango, AMNH 768838 About AMNH ( MMNH no. 16864), female, AMNH 768839 About AMNH (16866), adult, 10 November 1956 ; 1 mi west of Zumpango , AMNH 768840 About AMNH (16858), male, 15 September 1956, RWD nos. 7635, 7637, and 7403, respectively. Lago de Zumpango is shown in Dickerman (1963: 14, fig. 8; 47, fig. 20) ; the town of Zumpango is at 19.46N, 99.05W (Times Atlas). Arcese et al. (2002: 6) synonymized azteca with M. m. mexicana .