Pipilo fuscus carolae McGregor, 1899

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 : 45

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470401
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scientific name	Pipilo fuscus carolae McGregor
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Pipilo fuscus carolae McGregor

Pipilo fuscus carolae McGregor, 1899c: 11 (Battle Creek, California).

Now Pipilo crissalis crissalis (Vigors, 1839) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 463, Ridgway, 1901: 435–436, Kunzmann et al., 2002: 3–4, and Dickinson, 2003: 797.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 368511 About AMNH , male, collected at Battle Creek , California, on 7 November 1898. From the collection of R. McGregor (no. 2200) via the Jonathan Dwight Collection (no. 39652).

COMMENTS: McGregor cited his collection number of the holotype in the original description and had seven specimens from Battle Creek in his collection. The six paratypes are: AMNH 368508–368510, males, and AMNH 368512–368514, females. Dickinson (2003: 797) recognized carolae as a valid subspecies of P. crissalis . For information on McGregor, see Palmer (1928: 287).

There are many places named ‘‘Battle Creek’’ in California; in the original description, McGregor said that his locality was 2 mi from the Sacramento River and that the nearest post office was Ball’s Ferry. Ball’s Ferry is at ca. 40.30N, 122.18W GoogleMaps .

References

Hellmayr, C. E. 1938. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part XI. Ploceidae - Catamblyrhynchidae - Fringillidae.

Kunzmann, M. R., K. Ellison, K. L. Purcell, R. R. Johnson, and L. T. Haight. 2002. California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis). In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America. No. 632. Philadelphia: Birds of North America, Inc.

McGregor, R. C. 1899 c. A new race of the Brown Towhee. Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club 1: 11.

Palmer, T. S. 1928. Notes on persons whose names appear in the nomenclature of California birds. A contribution to the history of West Coast ornithology. Condor 30: 261 - 307.

Ridgway, R. 1901. The birds of North and Middle America. Part 1. Family Fringillidae - the finches. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 50: xxx + 715 pp., 20 pls.