Tanagra mesochrysa tavarae 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 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/775.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470541
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/430787C0-A841-FF9E-FD70-FD3CFC460C5C
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scientific name	Tanagra mesochrysa tavarae Chapman
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Tanagra mesochrysa tavarae Chapman, 1925a: 9 ( Rio Tavara , alt. 1600 ft.; long. 70 ° 209W., lat. 13 ° 259S., southeast Peru).

Now Euphonia mesochrysa tavarae (Chapman, 1925) View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1936: 65, Isler and Isler, 1999: 249–250, and Dickinson, 2003: 822.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 147790 About AMNH , adult male, collected on the Rio Tavara , 1600 ft, ca. 13.22S, 69.36W ( Vaurie, 1972), Puno, Peru, on 18 June 1915, by Harry and Casimir Watkins. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Chapman gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed nine specimens in his type series. The eight paratypes are: Rio Tavara, AMNH 132808 About AMNH , male, 3 June 1915 ; Chaupe, AMNH 181661–181666 About AMNH , 181668 About AMNH , four males, three females. The Chaupe specimens are also the holotype and paratypes of media (see above) .

References

Chapman, F. M. 1925 a. Descriptions of new birds from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina. American Museum Novitates 160: 1 - 14.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1936. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part IX. Tersinidae - Thraupidae. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 13 (9): v + 456 pp.

Isler, M. I., and P. R. Isler. 1999. The tanagers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 406 pp., 32 pls.

Vaurie, C. 1972. An ornithological gazetteer of Peru (based on information compiled by J. T. Zimmer). American Museum Novitates 2491: 1 - 36.