Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 34

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775737

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scientific name

Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz
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Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz

Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz, 1939: 75 (Baghlan, Afghanistan).

Now Hirundo rustica rustica Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . See Vaurie, 1951b: 20, and Dickinson et al., 2001b: 148.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 465671 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Baghlan, 36°11′N, 68°44′E (Times Atlas), Afghanistan, on 1 July 1937, by Walter Koelz. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description Koelz (1939: 75) gave the wing measurement of the type as 128 mm. A paratype collected on the same date at the same locality has a wing measuring 120 mm. Koelz (1939: 75) listed 11 paratypes. The two juveniles from Baghlan collected on 1 July were not cataloged at AMNH. The other nine paratypes are AMNH 465666–465670 and 465672–465675.

Koelz, W. 1939. New birds from Asia, chiefly from India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 52: 61 - 82.

Vaurie, C. 1951 b. Notes on some Asiatic swallows. American Museum Novitates 1529: 1 - 47.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Hirundinidae

Genus

Hirundo