Chloris chloris smithae Koelz

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 65

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4611753
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scientific name	Chloris chloris smithae Koelz
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Chloris chloris smithae Koelz, 1939: 74 (Balkh, Afghanistan).

Now Carduelis chloris turkestanica (Zarudny, 1907) View in CoL . See Vaurie, 1956a: 8–10; Vaurie, 1959: 601–602; Howell et al., 1968: 236; Dickinson, 2003: 749; and Clement, 2010: 542–543.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466940 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Wazirabad (5 Balkh), 36.46N, 66.50E (Times atlas), Afghanistan, on 1 December 1937, by Walter Koelz. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Koelz , in the original description, said that the type was an adult male (wing 91 mm), collected at Balkh, Afghanistan, 1 December 1937, and that he had an additional male and two females with the same data. AMNH 466940 About AMNH bears the AMNH type label and Koelz’s original label is marked ‘‘type’’ by him ; I measure its wing at 91. Paratypes are: AMNH 466939 About AMNH , male, AMNH 466941 About AMNH , 466942 About AMNH , females, collected at Balkh on 1 December 1937, by Koelz .