Zonotrichia albicollis
date: label: Collection Date
content: 25 Dec 1982
name: label: Collector
content: L. Morrow
notes: label: Notes
content: Hello, We are Lance and Jill Morrow and have been working on aberrant plumages in birds. We have recently published on dilute plumage in kestrels (Texas Ornithological Society) and melanistic, one aberrant dark and two aberrant pale Coopers Hawks (J. Raptor Research). In the early 1970's a pale/dilute plumaged White-Throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) was collected in Northern Virginia by Lance Morrow (Morrow, L.). This study skin was part of Walter Balmer's (of Northern Virginia Community College) extensive collection which, we hope, is now under your care. Could you locate this specimen and possibly take photos for publication? Some might not have been able to identify the bird as a White-Throated Sparrow due to its pale plumage so it could possibly be listed as "albinistic" or "leucistic" - of which it is neither. Upon close examination it's faint yellow lores can be seen. Lance & Jill Morrow 540-896-6553
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Manassas, 8 mi South on RT28, Prince William, Virginia, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Zonotrichia albicollis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2056771
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : 5563
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : 89-12046
label: USNM Number
content: 653246
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Emberizidae, Emberizinae
physicalDescription: label: Preparation
content: Skin: Whole
label: Sex
content: Male