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.

References

Arcese, P., M. K. Sogge, A. B. Marr, and P. A. Patten. 2002. Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia). In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America. No. 704. Philadelphia: Birds of North America, Inc.

Byers, C., J. Curson, and U. Olsson. 1995. Sparrows and buntings of North America and the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 334 pp., 39 pls.

Dickerman, R. W. 1963. The Song Sparrows of the Mexican plateau. Minnesota Museum of Natural History, Occasional Papers 9: ix + 79 pp.