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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Sporophila insulata Chapman

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

Now Sporophila telasco (Lesson, 1828). 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.