Crucirostra brachyrhynchos 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 : 75

Crucirostra brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm

Crucirostra brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1853: 185 (Er besucht nur zuweilen, wie im Winter 1818/ 19, die hiesige Gegend…).

Now Loxia pytyopsittacus Borkhausen, 1793 . See Hartert, 1918: 12; Vaurie, 1956b: 30–31; Vaurie, 1959: 647–648; Howell et al., 1968: 287–288; Dickinson, 2003: 755; and Clement, 2010: 603– 604.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456981 , adult male, collected at Renthendorf , 50.48N, 11.58E ( USBGN, 1959), Germany, in February 1819. From the C.L. Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not enumerate his specimens. Hartert (1918: 12) listed the above male, collected at Renthendorf in February 1819 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. It is labeled Crucirostra brachyrhynchos by Brehm, and on the reverse of the Brehm label, it is labeled ‘‘Nr. 4’’ and compared with ‘‘Nr. 3.’’ C. brachyrhynchos is number 4 in the list of forms discussed in this 1853 paper and is pictured as number 4 in the unnumbered plate of heads shown opposite page 182. Most of the specimens cataloged at AMNH as brachyrhynchos were exchanged to ZFMK.