Bradypterus brevirostris Sundevall, 1850: 103

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 546

Bradypterus brevirostris Sundevall, 1850: 103 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Caffraria inferiori.”

CURRENT STATUS: Schoenicola brevirostris brevirostris ( Sundevall, 1850) ; Locustellidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 466) .

TYPE MATERIAL: In Sundevall’s original description (1850: 103) and his acquisition journal only a single male is listed. The holotype, NRM 568781 [6751], is an adult male collected 14 April 1841 at Camperdown (Upper Umlaas River).

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: uMlazi River mouth, near Durban , KwaZulu-Natal .

COMMENTS: Type locality upper Umlaas River (= Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal) according to Gyldenstolpe (1926). However, Wahlberg stayed at the mouth of the uMlazi River from 11 March 1841 until at least 7 May ( Brinck 1955). Entries in the journal are intermittent through March and there are only two entries for April. The next entry on 7 May states that he had returned to Congella, Durban. There is no note that Wahlberg had gone to Camperdown during this period, and all specimens collected in March, April and early May are labelled uMlazi River or Durban (the latter probably in error). The type locality can be restricted to uMlazi River mouth, near Durban. In his type catalogue, Gyldenstolpe (1926: 46) observed that Sundevall (1850: 103) had priority over Cabanis’ paper of the same year and thus that Catriscus apicalis Cabanis, 1851 (corrected date, see Dickinson et al. 2011) is a subjective junior synonym of Bradypterus brevirostris Sundevall, 1850 .