Alauda pratorum 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 : 26

Alauda pratorum Brehm

Alauda pratorum Brehm, 1841 : cols. 136, 141 (Brinnis). Now Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918b: 22, and Cramp, 1988: 188.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457971 , adult male, collected at Brinnis , near Leipzig, 51°20′N, 12°20′E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 23 May 1835, by C.L. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 22) designated the above male the lectotype. Brehm (1841:141) stat­ ed that he had three pairs of A. pratorum in his collection. Five of those specimens, including the lectotype, came to AMNH. AMNH 457972, an adult female, tied together with the lectotype and bearing the same data, is a paralectotype. The oth­ er three paralectotypes, AMNH 457973–457975, were exchanged with ZFMK.