Montifringilla glacialis C.L. Brehm

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 15

Montifringilla glacialis C.L. Brehm

Montifringilla glacialis C.L. Brehm, 1831: 270 (Er bewohnt die Alpen Tyrols).

Now Montifringilla nivalis nivalis (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1918a: 14; Vaurie, 1956: 24–27; 1959: 587–588; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 27; Dickinson, 2003: 718; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 811.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456589 , adult male, collected in the Tyrol, on 12 January 1828. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not list a type or indicate how many specimens he examined. Hartert (1918a: 14), by listing the specimen collected on 12 January 1828 as the type, designated it the lectotype. There are two additional Brehm specimens in AMNH labeled glacialis by Brehm and collected before the 1831 description. I consider them paralectotypes: AMNH 456587, juvenile female, AMNH 456588, adult female, collected at Heiligen Blut, Tirol, on 4 July 1826.