Atlapetes pallidinuchus obscurior 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 : 48-49

Atlapetes pallidinuchus obscurior Chapman

Atlapetes pallidinuchus obscurior Chapman, 1914a: 186 (Santa Isabel, alt. 12700 ft., Central Andes).

Now Atlapetes pallidinucha papallactae Hellmayr, 1913 . See Chapman 1917: 576, Hellmayr, 1938: 392, Paynter, 1978: 355–356, and Dickinson, 2003: 800.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 113269 , adult male, collected at Santa Isabel , 12700 ft, Colombia, on 15 September 1911, by Arthur A. Allen and Leo E. Miller (no. 357).

COMMENTS: Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description with 13 specimens in his type series. The 12 paratypes are: Santa Isabel, AMNH 112818–112822 , 113271 , one male, five females, one female ?; Laguneta, AMNH 112817 , 113270 , one female, one sex ?; Almaguer, AMNH 117155–117158 , two males, one female, one sex?. Of these paratypes, AMNH 112819 was exchanged to USNM ; AMNH 112820 and 112822 were exchanged to O. Bangs in September 1918 and are probably in MCZ ; AMNH 113270 was exchanged to MZUSP in 1917 .

Paynter (1997: 484) listed both Santa Isabel, ca. 04.47N, 75.28W, and Paramo de Santa Isabel, ca. 04.47N, 75.26W, and noted that Chapman did not always distinguish between them. However, Chapman (1917: 32) noted that the altitude of 12700 ft was in paramo and ( Chapman, 1917: 655) further explained that the Santa Isabel camp was at 12000 ft, at the border between temperate forest and paramo. The field labels of the specimens from 12700 ft are stamped ‘‘Par.Val.’’