Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm

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 : 12

Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm

Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm, 1855: 122 (Nordostafrika) .

Now Ammomanes deserti deserti (Lichtenstein, 1823) . See Hartert, 1918b: 18, and Keith et al., 1992: 73.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457683 , adult male ‘‘aestate’’ (= summer), collected in northeast Africa.

From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen, labeled ‘‘ galeritaria ’’ in Brehm’s hand and with the locality on the original label as ‘‘Nordostafrika’’, is the only such specimen in AMNH from the Brehm Collection. As there is no indication of how many specimens Brehm had when he named this taxon, Hartert’s (1918b: 18) listing it as the type serves as lectotype designation, should other specimens appear.

Also on the Brehm label is the following, which may be a locality: ‘‘in Ira [or Ina] Mirufua.’’