Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert

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 : 5

Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert

Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert, 1904a: 149 (Sueme) .

Now Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert, 1904a . See Hartert, 1919: 158; Dickinson, 2003: 716; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 793–794.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 718377 , male, collected at Sueme , Palestine, on 2 April 1897, by Bacher and purchased from W. Schlüter (no. 143). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Schlüter’s number and date of collection of the type in the original description, but this does not distinguish it from the only other Schlüter specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, as both specimens were collected on the same date and are numbered ‘‘143.’’ AMNH 718377 bears the Rothschild type label, filled in by Hartert with reference to the original description, and the original label bearing Schlüter’s no. 143 is marked ‘‘Type.’’ It is without question Hartert’s intended type and was so cataloged at AMNH. I hereby designate AMNH 718377 the lectotype of P.d. biblicus in order to remove the ambiguity and confirm Hartert’s original intent. The second specimen is the paralectotype: AMNH 718378 (Schlüter no. 143), male, collected at Sueme, Palestine, on 2 April 1897 by Bacher. No other specimens of this form in the Rothschild Collection were collected before the publication of biblicus.