Pyrgita valida C.L. Brehm

Pyrgita valida C.L. Brehm, 1842: col. 887 (Dalmatien).

Now Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 14.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456427, adult male, Dalmatia, Croatia, on 24 March 1830. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm designated no type but said that valida lived in Dalmatia. By listing the above Dalmatian specimen as the type, Hartert (1918a: 14) designated it the lectotype; he noted on the Rothschild label that Brehm had probably received it from Feldegg. It bears a Rothschild type label and is the only Dalmatian specimen collected before the description and marked valida by Brehm that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 456415 is the only other specimen cataloged as valida that remains in AMNH, but it was not collected until 1846, after the name was introduced. Specimens cataloged as valida and bearing numbers AMNH 456414, 456416–456426, and 456428 were exchanged to ZFMK. Some of them may be paralectotypes if they were collected prior to 1842 and are marked valida by Brehm.