Accentor major Brehm, 1008

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 3

Accentor major Brehm

Accentor major Brehm, 1831: 1008 (lebt auf der Nordseite der deutschen Alpen).

Now Prunella collaris collaris (Scopoli, 1769) . See Hartert, 1918a: 34, and Cramp, 1988: 574.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455681 , male, died in 1829, cage bird from the north Tyrol, western Austria. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This is the only Brehm specimen collected prior to the description and labeled ‘‘major’’ by Brehm that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 34).