Curruca caniceps Brehm

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777368
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E59-1041-FF33-4A070BE0F982
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Curruca caniceps Brehm
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Curruca caniceps Brehm, 1831: 421 (Sie kommt einzeln im April in der hiesigen Gegend vor).

Now Sylvia communis communis Latham, 1787 View in CoL . See Hartert, 1909: 586, and Shirihai et al., 2001: 237, 244–246.

Syntype: AMNH 455601, adult male, collected at Renthendorf, 50.48N, 11.58E (USBGN, 1959), Germany, on 28 June 1830. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 31) considered that Curruca caniceps Brehm and Curruca vidali Brehm had the same types. However, Brehm’s (1831: 421) C. caniceps was a bird or birds collected locally, which he (Brehm, 1857: 455) at some point considered to be a synonym of Sylvia cinerea Bechstein and which is now a synonym of Sylvia communis communis (see Hartert, 1909: 586). A search through the specimens of S. c. communis uncovered a single Renthendorf specimen labeled Curruca caniceps Brm. by Brehm. It has been added to the AMNH type collection.

See below for a discussion of Curruca vidali .