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Junco ridgwayi Mearns

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Description

Junco ridgwayi Mearns

Junco ridgwayi Mearns, 1890: 243 (Whipple Barracks, Arizona).

Now considered an intergrade between J. hyemalis caniceps and J. h. mearnsi. See Miller, 1941: 406, Byers et al., 1995: 246–249, Nolan et al., 2002, and Dickinson, 2003: 783.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 52902, adult male, collected at Whipple Barracks, Arizona, on 22 April 1884, by Edgar A. Mearns (no. 2770).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mearns cited his number of the holotype. The single paratype is USNM 11187. Whipple Barracks was at ca. 34.34N, 112.26W.

Notes

Published as part of LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, pp. 1-125 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368) on page 16, DOI: 10.1206/775.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5399454

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1884-04-22
Family
Emberizidae
Genus
Junco
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 52902
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mearns
Species
ridgwayi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1884-04-22

References

  • Mearns, E. A. 1890. Descriptions of a new species and three new subspecies of birds from Arizona. Auk 7: 243 - 251.
  • Miller, A. H. 1941. Speciation in the avian genus Junco. University of California Publications in Zoology 44 (3): 173 - 434, 33 text figs.
  • Byers, C., J. Curson, and U. Olsson. 1995. Sparrows and buntings of North America and the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 334 pp., 39 pls.
  • Nolan, V., Jr., et al. 2002. Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America. No. 716. Philadelphia: Birds of North America, Inc.