Nucifraga brachyrhynchos 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 : 119-120

Nucifraga brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm

Nucifraga brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1823: 105 , 106 (Scheint das nordöstliche Europa zu bewohnen und sich selten nach Deutschland zu verirren).

Now Nucifraga caryocatactes caryocatactes (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1903d: 25; 1918a: 8; Vaurie, 1959: 157–158; Dickinson, 2003: 511; and dos Anjos, 2009: 611–612.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 675464 , adult male, collected in Thuringia Forest (= Thüringer Wald, as on label), Germany, on 10 October 1821. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not designate a type but specifically mentioned a male and a female that had been collected at the same time. Hartert (1903d: 25) listed the type as having been collected on 10 October 1821, but this did not distinguish between the male and female shot on the same day. Later, he ( Hartert, 1918a: 8) listed the male as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. A third Brehm specimen collected in the same month and also labeled brachyrhynchos by him came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The two paralectotypes in AMNH are: AMNH 675465, female, Thüringer Wald, 10 October 1821, AMNH 675466, male, Saalberg bei Kahla, 18 October 1821.