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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Pyrgita septentrionalis C.L. Brehm Pyrgita septentrionalis C.L. Brehm, 1831: 268 (Er bewohnt den Norden, namentlich Dänemark bis Kiel). Now Passer montanus montanus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 15 ; Dickinson, 2003: 717 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 456550 , adult male, collected at Kiel , 54.20N , 10.08E (Times Atlas), Germany , in May , 1825. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not list a type or mention how many specimens he examined. Hartert (1918a: 15) by listing the above specimen as the type of septentrionalis , designated it the lectotype . Other specimens cataloged in AMNH as septentrionalis were collected after the publication of the name.