Crucirostra rubrifasciata 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 : 77-78

Crucirostra rubrifasciata C.L. Brehm

Crucirostra rubrifasciata C.L. Brehm, 1845 : cols. 245–250 (Renthendorf).

Now Loxia curvirostra curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918: 12–13; Vaurie, 1956b: 25–30; Vaurie, 1959: 648–652; Howell et al., 1968: 288–293; Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 600–602.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457019 , adult male, caught at Renthendorf on 2 February 1844 and died 14 February 1844 (2 March in description, col. 250). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm described a number of different plumages and especially noted the specimen that had been taken into captivity on 2 February 1844. It is this specimen that Hartert listed as the type of rubrifasciata , thereby designating it the lectotype. In addition to the original Brehm label and the Rothschild type label, it bears two Rothschild Collection labels. The reverse of one has a note by Hartert: ‘‘Brehm sagt, er habe die Art in der Isis beschreiben, Wo?? S. Naumannia 1853, p. 194.’’ The type label has the correct reference to the description. The second Rothschild Collection label reflects a disagreement. It has a note on the front by ‘‘E. H[artert]!’’: ‘‘Umstehende Behauptung spassig! Ist L. curvirostra aberr. aber nicht species!’’; and on the reverse: ‘‘Einziger wirklicher Loxia rubrifasciata ! V. Bianchi.’’

Ten specimens were entered in the AMNH catalog as rubrifasciata , all except the lectotype having been exchanged to ZFMK. Seven of them were collected before the date of publication of the description and may be paralectotypes, depending on how they were labeled by Brehm.