Pitylus nigriceps Chapman

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 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
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scientific name	Pitylus nigriceps Chapman
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Treatment

Pitylus nigriceps Chapman, 1914b: 322 (Loja, alt. 7000 ft., Prov. Loja, Ecuador).

Now Saltator nigriceps (Chapman, 1914) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 35–36, and Dickinson, 2003: 825.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 130262 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Loja, 7000 ft, 04.00S, 79.13W GoogleMaps

( Paynter, 1993), Loja, Ecuador, on 14 October 1913, by William B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; in addition he had a second unsexed specimen ‘‘possibly female.’’ AMNH 130263 About AMNH , unsexed, from Loja, 7000 ft, 11 October 1912, by W.B. Richardson, is the paratype .