Sturnus tenuirostris 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 : 39

Sturnus tenuirostris C.L. Brehm

Sturnus tenuirostris C.L. Brehm, 1841 : col. 206 (Klagenfurth).

Now Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1903d: 42; 1918a: 10; Amadon, 1962a: 107; Dickinson, 2003: 656; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723–725.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 665639 , adult male, collected at Klagenfurt (= Klagenfurth), 46.38N, 14.20E (Times Atlas), Austria, on 20 April 1837, by von Hueber. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm named tenuirostris based on specimens sent him from Klagenfurt by von Hueber without designating a type. His label on the lectotype, designated by Hartert (1918a: 10), noted that the male was collected with the female on 20 April 1837. AMNH 665640, the paralectotype, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and was exchanged to ZFMK.