Ammodramus halophilus McGregor

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 : 16-17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
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scientific name	Ammodramus halophilus McGregor
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Ammodramus halophilus McGregor, 1898: 265 (Abreojos Point, Lower California).

Now Passerculus sandwichensis guttatus (Lawrence, 1867) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 492, Paynter, 1970b: 73, Wheelwright and Rising, 1993, Byers

et al., 1995: 251–254, and Dickinson, 2003: 783– 784.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 400262 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Punta Abreojos , 26.44N, 113.40W (Times Atlas), Baja California (5 Abreojos Point, Lower California), Mexico, on 19 April 1897, by Richard C. McGregor (no. 1001). From the Dwight Collection (no. 38303). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: McGregor cited his collection number of the holotype in the original description. McGregor’s (1898: 266) party secured 16 specimens on 19 April and additional specimens on 17 June. Fifteen paratypes, all from Punta Abreojos and collected on those dates, are in AMNH: AMNH 70325 About AMNH , male, was part of an exchange to AMNH from McGregor (field no. 1432). Eleven paratypes came with the Dwight Collection ; in the following list the AMNH number is followed by the Dwight number, the third number was pencilled on each label and is evidently a field number, the fourth number was added in red ink and was only on specimens that came from Dwight: males, AMNH 400263 About AMNH (38305, 553, 1003), AMNH 400264 About AMNH (383307, 548, 1007), AMNH 400265 About AMNH (38312, 1436, 1010), AMNH 400266 About AMNH (38311, 1440, 1009), AMNH 400267 About AMNH (38306, 561, 1004) ; females, AMNH 400268 About AMNH (38307, 555, 1005), AMNH 400269 About AMNH (38308, 549, 1006), AMNH 400270 About AMNH (38310, 1435, 1008), AMNH 400271 About AMNH (38314, 1433, 1012), AMNH 400272 About AMNH (38315, 1428, 1013), AMNH 400273 About AMNH (38316, 1442, 1014). One paratype, AMNH 518721 About AMNH , male, was collected by Anthony, had the field no. 560, was purchased by Rothschild from the dealer C.K. Worthen, and came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Two paratypes came with the Leonard C. Sanford Collection: females, AMNH 762159 About AMNH (Sanford no. 9013, field no. 559), the numbers 8809 and 14540 also appear on this label ; AMNH 762160 About AMNH (9796, 1427), the number 15518 also appears .