Melospiza melodia niceae 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

Melospiza melodia niceae Dickerman

Melospiza melodia niceae Dickerman, 1963: 51 (Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817696 , male, collected at Tulancingo , 20.06N, 98.20W (Times Atlas), Hidalgo, Mexico, on 22 September 1956, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 7427). On exchange from MMNH (no. 16897) to AMNH in 1986.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Dickerman cited his field number and the MMNH number of the holotype and examined 53 specimens of niceae. Of the 52 paratypes, four are in AMNH: 1 mi west of Tulancingo, AMNH 768846 (MMNH no. 16910), male, 29 April 1958, RWD no. 8716; Lago Zupitlan, AMNH 768847 (16913), imm. male, AMNH 768848 (16911), juvenile female, AMNH 768849 (16918), unsexed, all three collected on 22 September 1956, RWD nos. 7435, 7433, and 7448, respectively. See Dickerman (1963: 47, fig. 20) for a map showing the range of niceae. Arcese et al. (2002: 6) considered niceae a synonym of M. m. mexicana .