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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LeCroy, Mary
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Icterus gularis troglodytes
Griscom
Icterus gularis troglodytes
Griscom, 1930: 13
(San Felipe,
Retalhuleu
, Pacific slope of
Guatemala
).
Now
Icterus gularis mentalis
Lesson, 1831
. See
Griscom, 1932: 396
;
Hellmayr, 1937: 148
; Blake,
1968: 156;
Dickinson, 2003: 771
;
Dickerman, 2007: 35–38
; and
Fraga, 2011: 765
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 399358
, adult male, collected at
San Felipe
,
2500 ft
,
14.40N
,
91.30W
(Times atlas),
Retalhuleu
,
Pacific
slope of
Guatemala
, on
7 December 1919
, by
Austin Paul Smith
(no. 19209).
From
the
Johathan Dwight Collection
(no. 56504).
COMMENTS:
Griscom
cited the
Dwight
number of the
holotype
in the original description, and noted (on p. 14) that he had
29 specimens
from
Ocos
to
San José
(including the type), one male from
Antigua
and one male from
San Lucas. Later
, he (
Griscom, 1932: 396
) listed these
31 specimens
by locality.
Of
the
30 paratypes
, the following 21 are in
AMNH
:
Finca El Cipres
,
AMNH 398723
,
398725–398730
, two males, one immature male, four females,
23 July–24 August 1924
;
Antigua
,
AMNH 398724
, male,
6 June 1924
;
Hacienda California
,
AMNH 398731–398736
,
398738
, two males, four females, one immature female,
7 June–3 July 1926
,
29 September 1927
;
Ocos
,
AMNH 398739
, male (as on label),
AMNH 398740
, female,
14–16 October 1927
;
San Lucas
,
AMNH 398737
, male,
27 May 1927
, all collected by
A.W. Anthony. Pantaleon
,
AMNH 399356
, male,
18 October 1919
;
San Felipe
,
AMNH 399357
, female,
5 December 1919
;
San Jose´
,
AMNH 399359
, male,
29 January 1920
, all collected by
Austin Paul Smith.
Hellmayr (1937: 148)
noted that
Icterus mentalis
Lesson, 1831
, could not be identified with certainty because the
type
locality was not recorded and recognized instead
I. g. tamaulipensis
Ridgway, 1901. Blake (1968: 156) and
Dickinson (2003: 771)
apparently accepted Hellmayr’s analysis and listed
tamaulipensis, yucatanensis,
and
troglodytes
as valid subspecies of
Icterus gularis
without mentioning
mentalis
;
Dickerman (2007: 35– 38)
accepted
mentalis
Lesson, 1831
, as a valid name, restricted the
type
locality to the city of
Veracruz
and considered
yucatanensis
,
tamaulipensis
, and
troglodytes
to be synonyms of
mentalis
. This was accepted by
Fraga (2011: 765)
.
As in the previous form, the collection was divided between AMNH and MCZ before it was cataloged. The remaining
paratypes
are probably at MCZ. See
Casto and Burke (2010: 13)
for information on Austin Paul Smith.