Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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Icterus sclateri alticola
Miller and Griscom
Icterus sclateri alticola
Miller and Griscom, 1925: 4
(
Progreso
,
Guatemala
).
Now
Icterus pustulatus alticola
Miller and Griscom, 1925
. See
Griscom, 1932: 397
;
Hellmayr,
1937: 155–156; Blake, 1968: 157;
Dickinson, 2003: 771
; and
Fraga, 2011: 763
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 398792
, adult male, collected at
Progreso
,
17.18N
,
90.08W
(Times atlas),
Guatemala
, on
17 September 1924
, by
A.W. Anthony
(no. 830).
From
the
Jonathan Dwight Collection
(no. 58978).
COMMENTS: Miller and Griscom gave the Dwight Collection number of the
holotype
in the original description and listed one Guatemalan specimen collected by von Patten, three males, three females, one sex?, collected at Progreso, one female from Volcan Zunil, and one male from El Tanque,
Nicaragua
. At the time of publication of this name,
Miller and Griscom (1925: 1)
were working on their Nicaraguan collection and had borrowed specimens from Dwight and others for comparison. It is not now possible to tell which specimens from
Progreso
are
paratypes
of
alticola
as all of the Dwight specimens were cataloged together and Griscom identified and initialed them all as
alticola.
As the description was published in 1925, it seemed possible that only specimens collected in
July 1924
were available. But this is not correct, because the type was collected in
September 1924
. Later,
Griscom (1932: 397)
, when working with the entire Dwight Collection, noted that he had
22 specimens
of
alticola
; there are 15
alticola
, including the type, in AMNH. Because the collection was divided with MCZ, the remaining specimens may be in that institution and some of them may be
paratypes
. There are, however, two definite
paratypes
in AMNH:
AMNH 42020
, male,
Guatemala
, from Dr. v[on] P[atten], from the
Lawrence
Collection; and
AMNH 144752
, male, El Tanque,
Nicaragua
,
11 April 1917
, by Miller, Griscom and Richardson (now considered a specimen of
I. pustulatus sclateri
). I did not find the female specimen from Volcan Zunil,
Guatemala
, listed by
Miller and Griscom (1925: 4)
, and it was perhaps also borrowed. See
Griscom (1932: 11–15
, 420, map) for a summary of Anthony’s collecting localities.