Pyrrhulauda butleri Shelley

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 10-11

Pyrrhulauda butleri Shelley

Pyrrhulauda butleri Shelley, 1903: 73 (Twenty miles W.

of Omdurman).

Now Eremopterix nigriceps albifrons (Sundevall, 1850) .

See Peters, 1960a: 31, and Keith et al., 1992: 111.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558975 , adult male, collected 20 mi. W. of Omdurman , Sudan, on 2 January 1903, by Arthur L. Butler (no. 130). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Butler’s field number was given for the holotype in the original description. This is the same Arthur L. Butler who had previously been at the State Museum in Kuala Lumpur and who had become Superintendent of the Wild Animals Department, Khartoum, Sudan.

Omdurman is at 15°37′N, 32°29′E (Times Atlas).

Melanocorypha elegans Brehm Melanocorypha elegans Brehm, 1855: 122 (Nubien) .

Now Ammomanes cincturus arenicolor (Sundevall,

1851). See Hartert, 1918b: 19, and Keith et al., 1992:

72.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457687 , collected at Abu Hamed , 19°32′N, 33°20′E (Times Atlas), Sudan, on 30 August 1851, by Alfred E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen was one of five specimens from ‘‘Nubien’’ that had been identified in the AMNH catalog as Ammomanes deserti , each of which I examined. AMNH 457687 had originally been identified by Brehm as Melanocorypha isabellina , with isabellina marked out and replaced by elegans in Brehm’s hand. While Brehm (1855: 122) listed the locality only as ‘‘Nubien’’ and did not indicate how many specimens he had, this is the only one bearing the name elegans now in AMNH. Hartert (1918b: 19), in listing this specimen as the type, added the locality ‘‘Abu Hamed’’, thus designating it the lectotype, should other specimens be discovered. This locality appears on the Brehm label in his hand and is the only specimen so labeled.

The other four specimens labeled ‘‘Nubien’’ are: AMNH 457684, from ‘‘Wad el Arab in Nubien’’, and AMNH 457685, from ‘‘Nubien’’, labeled Eremita isabellina macrorhynchos ; and AMNH 457686, from ‘‘Nubien’’, and AMNH 457688, from ‘‘Vanrasko[?], Nubien’’, labeled Eremita isabellina minor . These have since been identified as Ammomanes deserti deserti .

Hartert (1918b: 19) commented: ‘‘This specimen being rather small, I have no doubt whatever that it is a female, and it was thus originally marked by A. E. Brehm, but for some reason, thinking he knew better, his father altered the sexmark into ‘male’.’’ The darker ink of the overmark indicates that this is indeed the case. The original sexing was female adult.

Ammomanes cinctura zarudnyi Hartert Ammomanes cinctura zarudnyi Hartert, 1902e: 43 (Mudjnabad, E. Persia).

Now Ammomanes cincturus zarudnyi Hartert, 1902 . See

Cramp, 1988: 59, and Dickinson and Dekker, 2001a:

65.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 558473 , adult female, collected at Mudjnabad , southern Khurasan, Iran, on 8 November 1900, by N. Zarudny. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1919: 166) noted that the date given above is based on the Russian calendar. This is the only specimen in AMNH from Mudjnabad (Mudjun­Abad) collected by Zarudny. I was unable to trace this locality.

In the original description, Hartert (1902e: 43) stated that there were five specimens of this taxon in the Rothschild Collection. Fifteen specimens, not including the holotype, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, all collected in eastern Iran before 1902. Which of these were in the Rothschild Collection by 1902 is not known.