Serinus meridionalis C.L. Brehm

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 60

Serinus meridionalis C.L. Brehm

Serinus meridionalis C.L. Brehm, 1831: 255 (in Tyrol und der Schweiz).

Now Serinus serinus (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1903: 83; Vaurie, 1959: 599; Howell et al., 1968: 210; Dickinson, 2003: 746; and Clement, 2010: 516–517.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 456733, adult male, AMNH 456734, adult female, both collected on 15 July 1820, in Tyrol. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: S. meridionalis Brehm was not among the Brehm types listed by Hartert (1918). Three specimens labeled meridionalis by Brehm were discovered in the AMNH general collection when looking for the syntype of S. orientalis (above). The adult male and female were tied together and are labeled as from Tyrol, given as a locality for this form by Brehm. They are considered syntypes of meridionalis . The third specimen, AMNH 456745, juvenile female, 8 August 1824, Wien, while labeled meridionalis is from a locality given for orientalis . It was also collected on the same day as a juvenile male of orientalis (see above). I have not considered it a syntype of either name.