Pyrgita septentrionalis, 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 : 122

Monedula septentrionalis C.L. Brehm

Monedula septentrionalis C.L. Brehm, 1831: 173 (Sie bewohnt das nördliche Europa, kommt namentlich bei Helsingöer vor, nur zuweilen in das nordwestliche Deutschland).

Now Corvus monedula spermologus Vieillot, 1817 . See Hartert, 1918a: 8; Vaurie, 1959: 165; Dickinson, 2003: 512; and dos Anjos, 2009: 617.

PROBABLE HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674146 , adult female, collected at Helsingør (= Helsingöer), 56.03N, 12.38E (Times Atlas), Sjaelland Island , Denmark, in October 1823. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm, in his description of septentrionalis , did not indicate how many specimens he examined nor designate a type. Hartert (1918a: 8) detailed why he considered this specimen to be Brehm’s type and perhaps his only specimen from northern Europe. If he had others, then Hartert, by listing this specimen as the type, designated it the lectotype.