Saltator intermedius Lawrence

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 : 55-56

Saltator intermedius Lawrence

Saltator intermedius Lawrence, 1864b: 106 ( New Granada, Isthmus of Panama).

Now Saltator maximus intermedius Lawrence, 1864 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 10–11, Wetmore et al., 1984: 534–535, and Dickinson, 2003: 824.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 41108 , juvenile male, collected by McLeannan (no. 58 Jr or Jv) ;

AMNH 41109, female, AMNH 41122, male, both collected by James McLeannan and John R. Galbraith (nos. 59F and 59M, respectively), all collected in Panama. From the George N. Lawrence Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Lawrence did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had, noting only that he had earlier, in the first part of his Catalogue, assigned his single female specimen to Saltator magnus ( Lawrence, 1861a: 297) but that he had more recently received specimens of both sexes. The specimens listed in the first part of his Catalogue had been collected by McLeannan alone. None of the specimens is dated. As the only female now in the collection is one collected later by McLeannan and Galbraith together, it seems likely that Lawrence considered the single specimen collected earlier to be a female as it has only a few feathers of the black breast band present. McLeannan’s small square tag was present on this specimen and it appears to be marked ‘‘58 Jr or Jv,’’ but this could have easily been misread by Lawrence . No type status is indicated on any of the three specimens. These specimens had not previously been recognized as types.