Petronia saxorum C.L. Brehm

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 13-14

Petronia saxorum C.L. Brehm

Petronia saxorum C.L. Brehm, 1855a: 97 (Saalthale) .

Now Petronia petronia petronia (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1918a: 14; Vaurie, 1959: 584–585; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 24; and Dickinson, 2003: 718.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456565 , adult male, collected at Lobeda , 50.53N, 11.36E (Times Atlas), near Jena , Germany, on 10 December 1826. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 14), by listing the male collected on 10 December 1826 as the type, designated it the lectotype of saxorum . It is tied together with a female, AMNH 456564, collected on 10 December 1826, a paralectotype, also labeled saxorum by Brehm. There are two additional paralectotypes in AMNH labeled saxorum by Brehm: AMNH 456566, female juvenile, and AMNH 456567, male juvenile, both collected at Lobeda near Jena, on 10 August 1826.

Four additional Brehm specimens cataloged as Petronia petronia petronia and from Lobeda were exchanged with ZFMK. They may be paralectotypes of macrorhynchos , rupestris , or saxorum , depending on how Brehm had labeled them.