Icterus fuertesi Chapman, 1911

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 : 52-53

Icterus fuertesi Chapman

Icterus fuertesi Chapman, 1911: 3 (Paso del Haba, south shore of Tamesi River, 35 miles northwest of Tampico, Mexico).

Now Icterus spurius fuertesi Chapman, 1911 . See Hellmayr, 1937: 107; Blake, 1968: 162; Scharf and Kren, 1996: 3; Omland et al., 1999; Dickinson, 2003: 770; and Fraga, 2011: 770– 771.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 95909 , adult male, collected at Paso del Haba , south shore of Tamesi River, 35 mi northwest of Tampico, 22.18N, 97.52W (Times atlas), Mexico, on 6 April 1910, by Louis A. Fuertes (no. 2200).

COMMENTS: Chapman gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had four specimens. Two of the three paratypes are in AMNH: AMNH 95907, immature male, AMNH 95908, female, collected at the type locality on 7 April 1910 by F.M. Chapman. The fourth paratype remained in Fuertes’ Collection (no. 2201). This new form was illustrated by Fuertes in plate 1, opposite page 1 of the description.

Scharf and Kren (1996: 3) and Fraga (2011: 770) treated I. fuertesi as a separate monotypic species, but other authors have maintained it as a subspecies of Icterus spurius .