Nucifraga 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 : 120

Nucifraga macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm

Nucifraga macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1823: 103 (‘‘Er bewohnt die Gebirgswälder des mittlern und nordöstlichen Europa, und Nordasiens, und kommt von ihnen nach mehrern Jahren ein Mal im September und October in viele Gegenden Europas und in die meisten unseres Vaterlandes’’).

Now Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos Brehm, 1823 . See Hartert, 1918a: 9; Vaurie, 1959: 156–158; Dickinson, 2003: 511; and dos Anjos, 2009: 611–612.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 675513 , adult male, collected in the Orla River Valley (= Vallis Orilana), Germany, on 10 October 1821. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm described the male, female, and young without designating a type. Of all the AMNH specimens, identified as macrorhynchos by Brehm only two were collected before the 1823 date of publication of the name. The above male was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 9). The paralectotype in AMNH is: AMNH 675511, female, collected in the Roda Valley, on 4 October 1821.