Galerita flava crassirostris 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 : 21

Galerita flava crassirostris Brehm

Galerita flava crassirostris Brehm, 1858: 210 (Berber und der Gegend Chartum) .

Now Galerida cristata isabellina Bonaparte, 1850 . See Hartert, 1918b: 21, and Keith et al., 1992: 101.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457761 , adult male, collected at [Old] Sennar , 13°40′N, 33°33′E (Times Atlas), Sudan, on 10 November 1850, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 21) designated this specimen the lectotype. There are five additional specimens at AMNH that are identified as crassirostris in Brehm’s hand and collected by A.E. Brehm: AMNH 457763 , female juv., May 1851 ; AMNH 457764 , female juv., March 1851 ; AMNH 457766 , female juv., April 1851 ; AMNH 457767 , female, 10 June 1850 (all labeled ‘‘Chartum’’) ; and AMNH 457768 , from which the Brehm label has been lost but Hartert’s label also says Khartoum. These are all paralectotypes .

Hartert failed to notice that this original label of the lectotype had the locality ‘‘Sennaar’’ written on it. This would presumably fall into the category of ‘‘der Gegend Chartum’’ listed by Brehm in the original description. Old Sennar is about as far south and east of Khartoum as Berber is north and east. The Sennar that appears on present­day maps was known as Makwar until the 1930s. Old Sennar, destroyed in 1885, lies a few miles to the north­northwest ( Seltzer, 1962: 1733).