Pica caudata melanotos A.E. Brehm

Pica caudata melanotos A.E. Brehm, 1857: 446 (Häufig in Mittelspanien und Andalusien).

Now Pica pica melanotos A.E. Brehm, 1857 . See Hartert, 1918a: 8; Vaurie, 1959: 150; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 251; Dickinson, 2003: 511; and dos Anjos, 2009: 604–605.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 675975, adult male, collected at Madrid, 40.25N, 03.43W (Times Atlas), Spain, on 18 February 1857, by A.E. Brehm (no. 226). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: A.E. Brehm based his description of melanotos on specimens of Pica cudata he collected in Spain, but the size of the type series was not given and no type was designated. Hartert (1918a: 8), by listing as type the adult male collected at Madrid on 18 February 1857, designated it the lectotype of melanotos. It bears, in addition to A.E. Brehm’s original label, Rothschild Museum and type labels. One paralectotype came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 675976, female, Toledo, 16 January 1857, collected by A.E. Brehm.