Melanocorypha semitorquata 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 : 14

Melanocorypha semitorquata Brehm

Melanocorypha semitorquata Brehm, 1856c: 374 (an der Wolga bei Sarepta).

Now Melanocorypha calandra calandra (Linnaeus, 1766) . See Hartert, 1918: 17, and Cramp, 1988: 93.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457658 , adult male, collected at Krasnoarmeysk (= Sarepta), 48°31′N, 44°34′E (Times Atlas), in May 1853. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This is the only specimen from ‘‘Sarepta’’ labeled semitorquata that was received at AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918: 17). Two other specimens, AMNH 457659 with no date, from Galatia, and AMNH 457661, 31 May 1857 (collected after the description), from Cartagena, Spain, have no standing as types.

Krasnoarmeysk was called Sarepta before 1920; it was founded as a German colony in ca.1770 ( Seltzer, 1962: 980).