Melospiza melodia zacapu Dickerman

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 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470280
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scientific name	Melospiza melodia zacapu Dickerman
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Melospiza melodia zacapu Dickerman, 1963: 40 (Zacapu, Michoacán, Mexico).

Now Melospiza melodia zacapu Dickerman, 1963 . See Paynter, 1970: 53, Byers et al., 1995: 229– 233, Arcese et al., 2002: 6, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817694 About AMNH , immature female, collected at Zacapu de Mier , 19.49N, 101.48W (Times Atlas), Michoacan, Mexico, on 12 December 1956, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 7772). Exchanged from MMNH (no. 16678) to AMNH in 1986. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The MMNH and RWD nos. were cited in the original description. Seventythree specimens of zacapu were examined; of the 72 paratypes, the following four are in AMNH: Zacapu, AMNH 768821 (MMNH no. 16667), male, 30 July 1956, RWD no. 7152; AMNH 768822 (16696), female, 15 May 1958, RWD no. 8804; AMNH 768823 (16699), male, 10 December 1958, RWD no. 9237; AMNH 768824 (16704), immature female, 10 December 1958, RWD no. 9242. See Dickerman (1963: 40, fig. 19) for a map showing the distribution of zacapu. Arcese et al. (2002: 6) synonymized zacapu with M. m. adusta.