Emberiza guttata Meyen 1834a : 85

Mlíkovský, Jiří & Frahnert, Sylke, 2017, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F. J. F. Meyen’s circumnavigation in 1830 – 1832, Zootaxa 4250 (1), pp. 1-22 : 14

Emberiza guttata Meyen 1834a: 85 , pl. 12, fig. 1.

Now: Phrygilus alaudinus alaudinus ( Kittlitz, 1833) . See Hellmayr (1938: 360).

Holotype: ZMB 6188 ( Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 35, 36, 37 or 38 sub “ Fringilla ”), skin, collected by Meyen in “ Februar ” or “ Maerz ” [= 27 Jan–24 Feb 1831; see below] in “ Chile ” [= Metropolitan Region , Chile; see below].

Type locality. Meyen (1834a: 86) stated that he collected Emberiza guttata in “Provinz Santiago ”. The type locality is thus the Metropolitan Region of Chile, where Meyen worked, with short interruptions, from 27 January to 24 February 1831 .

Remarks. Meyen (1834a) recognized one “ Emberiza ” ( guttata ) and three “ Fringilla ” species ( luteiventris , chilensis and minuta ), without specifying their types. Lichtenstein (1832) listed six specimens in the group without giving their species names: two from Chile in February 1831 (his Nr. 35, 38), two from Chile in March 1831 (his Nr. 36, 37), one from Manila in September 1831 (his Nr. 39), and one from Manila in October 1831 (his Nr. 86). We assigned both Manila specimens to F. minuta (see below), but which of the other Lichtenstein-listed specimens belongs to which of Meyen’s species remains unclear. However , the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB lists two Meyen specimens as belonging to Fringilla chilensis , which means that both remaining Neotropical species ( guttata and luteiventris ) were based on single specimens, which are thus their holotypes . Entries made by M.H.C. Lichtenstein (1832) apparently include errors, because Meyen could not have collected specimens at Santiago in March (he was already back in Valparaíso on 24 February), and the locality Api (or Apo), where Fringilla luteiventris was collected (see below), was not mentioned by Lichtenstein (l.c.).