Luscinia hybrida Brehm

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 12

Luscinia hybrida Brehm

Luscinia hybrida Brehm, 1855: 145 ( Polen) . Now Luscinia luscinia (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Har­

tert, 1918a: 34, and Cramp, 1988: 616.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 454824 , adult, from Poland, died in captivity on 11 August 1838. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen bears the name Luscinia hybrida in Brehm’s hand, the Rothschild Collection label bears the correct data, and Hartert (1918a: 34), in designating it the lectotype, correctly gave the data. However, as noted above, the Rothschild type labels for the types of L. hybrida and L. eximia were reversed. A corrected AMNH type label has been added.

A second cage bird from Poland that died on 19 August 1838 was cataloged at AMNH as hybrida , but this specimen was labeled Luscinia major by Brehm.

Ripley (1964: 40) included luscinia in the genus Erithacus .