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
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2014
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2014
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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.