Curruca obscura 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

Curruca obscura Brehm

Curruca obscura Brehm, 1855: 228 (In Greichenland) .

Now Sylvia curruca curruca (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 32, and Shirihai et al., 2001: 121,132–136.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455624 , male, collected in Attica, Greece, in April 1845, by A. Lindermayer. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm indicated that his material was received from Lindermayer. Hartert (1918a: 32) listed the above specimen as the type, which in the absence of evidence of a holotype becomes the lectotype. It is the only specimen labeled obscura by Brehm that came to AMNH, and it is possible that it was the only Lindermayer specimen that he had, in which case it would be the holotype. Two additional specimens cataloged as obscura at AMNH are labeled assimilis by Brehm (see below).