Sporophila insulata Chapman, 1921

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 : 32

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scientific name	Sporophila insulata Chapman
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Sporophila insulata Chapman View in CoL

Sporophila insulata Chapman, 1921a: 12 View in CoL (Tumaco, southwestern Colombia).

Now Sporophila telasco (Lesson, 1828) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1938: 214, Stiles, 2004, and Ridgely and Tudor, 2009: 637, 698.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 118142 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Tumaco Island , 01.48N, 78.47W ( Paynter, 1997), Nariño, western Colombia, on 28 July 1912, by William B. Richardson. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype, listing the three paratypes that he examined. Paratypes are: AMNH 118141, 118143, males, considered immature by Chapman, and AMNH 118144, female, all collected on Tumaco Island, on 28 July 1912.

Until recently considered a full (Dickinson, 2003: 793), and perhaps endangered, species, Sporophila insulata was studied by Stiles (2004) on Bocagrande Island. His conclusion was that insulata is best considered a subspecies or color morph of S. telasco , with further study needed to determine which.

References

Chapman, F. M. 1921 a. Descriptions of proposed new birds from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. American Museum Novitates 18: 1 - 12.

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

Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1997. Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia, 2 nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 537 pp., 2 maps.

Ridgely, R. S., and G. Tudor. 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America. The passerines. Austin: University of Texas Press, viii + 750 pp., 121 pls.

Stiles, F. G. 2004. The Tumaco Seedeater (Sporophila insulata, Emberizidae): A species that never was? Ornitologia Neotropical 15: 17 - 30.