Passerina versicolor purpurascens Griscom, 1930

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 : 60

Passerina versicolor purpurascens Griscom

Passerina versicolor purpurascens Griscom, 1930: 12 (Progreso, Guatemala).

Now Passerina versicolor purpurascens Griscom, 1930 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 110–111, Klicka et al., 2001, and Dickinson, 2003: 826.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 397359 , adult male, collected at Progreso, Guatemala, on 10 July 1924, by Alfred W. Anthony (no. 341). From the Jonathan Dwight Collection (no. 58453).

COMMENTS: Griscom cited the Dwight Collection number of the holotype in the original description and listed two adult males, including the type, and one immature female of his new subspecies. The paratype in AMNH is AMNH 397360, male, from Progreso. The immature female paratype may be at MCZ. Dickerman (1987b: 84) listed this type.