Pyrgita brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm

Pyrgita brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1842: col. 890 (Diese Subspecies lebt in Dalmatien und Kärnthen).

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

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456389, male, Dalmatia, Croatia, spring (= vere, as on label), not dated. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm did not designate a type but noted in the original description that he had three specimens: two from Dalmatia, one in breeding and one in winter plumage, and a third from Carinthia (= Kärnthen). Only two among those cataloged at AMNH as brachyrhynchos were collected in the given localities. Hartert (1918a: 14), by listing as type the male specimen marked ‘‘vere’’ (vererben?) by Brehm, designated it the lectotype of brachyrhynchos . Hartert on the Rothschild label noted: ‘‘Probably from Feldegg.’’

The second male from Dalmatia, AMNH 456390, marked ‘‘auct.’’ (auctumno) by Brehm is a paralectotype.