Emberiza cioides vagans La Touche

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 : 5-6

Emberiza cioides vagans La Touche

Emberiza cioides vagans La Touche, 1927: 360 (Mouth of Sidemi, Amur Bay and Mid-Ussuri, Siberia).

Now Emberiza cioides weigoldi Jacobi, 1923 . See Meise, 1938: 245–246, Vaurie, 1956b: 19–20, and Dickinson, 2003: 777.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 716711 , adult male, collected at the Mouth of Sidemi, Amur Bay, Siberia , on 4 March 1884 ; and AMNH 716715 , female, collected on the middle Ussuri River, Siberia , on 13 April 1882, both collected by the Dörries brothers. From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Only AMNH 716715 had been included in the AMNH type collection ; however, it is clear from the original description that LaTouche intended to designate both a male and a female as types and both are so labeled by him. The male, AMNH 716711 , has been added to the type collection. They were not included in Hartert’s (1928) list of types in the Rothschild Collection .

LaTouche listed four specimens of vagans in his collection, and a series of wintering birds from the Taipai Shan, Shensi, in the Rothschild Collection. These latter are marked ‘‘Co-type’’ by LaTouche, but because syntypes were designated in the original description, the other specimens listed are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6).

There are other specimens in AMNH collected by the Dörries brothers in Siberia, but they were apparently not seen by La- Touche, as they are not marked ‘‘Co-type.’’