Emberiza schoeniclus steinbacheri Dementiev

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 8

Emberiza schoeniclus steinbacheri Dementiev

Cynchramus septentrionalis Brehm, 1831: 302 (Er bewohnt das nördliche Europa, kommt in beiden Geschlechtern regelmässig nach Dänemark, im männlichen höchst selten nach Mitteldeutschland).

Emberiza schoeniclus steinbacheri Dementiev, 1937: 86 , nomen novum.

Now Emberiza schoeniclus schoeniclus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918: 16, Vaurie, 1956a, and Dickinson, 2003: 780.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 456197 , adult male, collected in Denmark, on 20 April 1820. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: As Hartert (1918: 16) noted, this was the only Brehm specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected before the description of septentrionalis , ‘‘and therefore it must be the type.’’ If other specimens should be found, then Hartert by his action, designated AMNH 456197 the lectotype of Cynchramus septentrionalis .

Dementiev (1937: 86–87) provided the replacement name, Emberiza schoeniclus steinbacheri , for Cynchramus septentrionalis Brehm , preoccupied by Emberiza septentrionalis Brehm (1831: 295) , a synonym of Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus, 1758 ( Vaurie, 1959: 699) . Dementiev (1937: 87) provided a new type for steinbacheri; however, because it is a replacement name for Brehm’s C. septentrionalis , it shares the same type (ICZN, 1999: 78, Art. 72.7), and Dementiev’s type is invalid.