Melospiza melodia cleonensis 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 : 11-12

Melospiza melodia cleonensis McGregor

Melospiza melodia cleonensis McGregor, 1899b: 87 (Westport, Mendocino Co., California).

Now Melospiza melodia cleonensis McGregor, 1899 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 603, Byers et al., 1995: 229–233, Arcese et al., 2002, and Dickinson, 2003: 782.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 405820, male, and AMNH 405823, female, collected at Westport, 39.39N, 123.45W (Times Atlas), Mendocino County, California, on 28 May 1889,

by Richard C. McGregor (nos. 287 and 288,

respectively). From the Dwight Collection (nos. 39224 and 39223, respectively).

COMMENTS: In the original description, McGregor listed these two specimens as ‘‘Cotype’’ and ‘‘Type’’ in the sense of syntypes and also mentioned three additional specimens from Cleone, California, but these would have no type standing (ICZN, 1999: 80, Arts. 73.2.1 and 72.4.6). One of the Cleone specimens is in AMNH.