Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor, 1900

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 : 44

Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor

Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor, 1900: 43 (Palo Alto, California).

Now Pipilo maculatus falcifer McGregor, 1900 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 457, Swarth, 1913, Greenlaw 1996, and Dickinson, 2003: 797.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 368322, adult male, collected on 9 April 1898 and AMNH 368333, female, collected on 3 March 1898, at Palo Alto, 37.26N, 122.10W (Times Atlas), California, by Richard C. McGregor (nos. 2274 and 882, respectively) and T.J.

Hoover. From the Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Collection (nos. 39484 and 39492, respectively).

COMMENTS: McGregor designated syntypes in the original description, giving his collection numbers for them, and the McGregor labels for both are marked ‘‘Type.’’ Only the male syntype bears a type label, although I have found no evidence of lectotype designation. The female syntype has now been included in the AMNH type collection. Twenty-two McGregor specimens of this form from Palo Alto, collected before 1900, came to AMNH with the Dwight Collection, but because syntypes were designated, the remaining 20 specimens have no type standing (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6).