Petronia macrorhynchos 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 : 13

Petronia macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm

Petronia macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1855a: 97 (Greichenland) .

Now Petronia petronia petronia (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1918a: 14; Vaurie, 1956: 21; 1959: 584; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 24; Dickinson, 2003: 718; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 810–811.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456572 , adult male, collected in Greece (= Greichenland), in spring (= vere, as on label), 1847. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm, in his original description, did not list a type or indicate how many specimens he had. Hartert, by listing the above specimen as the type, designated it the lectotype. It is labeled macrorhynchos in Brehm’s hand and bears a Rothschild type label. It is the only Brehm specimen of this species from Greece in AMNH.