Galerita Theklae

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 : 24

Galerita Theklae major C.L. Brehm

Galerita Theklae major C.L. Brehm, 1858: 213 (Umgegend von Jativa, nicht weit von Valencia, und auf der Sierra nevada).

Now Galerida theklae theklae (A.E. Brehm, 1857) . See Hartert, 1918b: 21, and Cramp, 1988: 163.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457783 , adult female, collected in the Sierra Nevada , Spain, on 16 November 1856, by A.E. Brehm (no. 178). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: On the original label, O. K[leinschmidt] stated: ‘‘Abgebildet nach Brehms Tagebuch i[m] N[euen] Naumann.’’ In the ‘‘Neuen Naumann’’ (see Hennicke, 1900: 40), Ernst Hartert, in his additions to the original text, noted that the Galerida theklae pictured on the opposite page was ‘‘das Weibchen (Nr. 178) eines gepaarten, von Dr. ALFRED BREHM in der Sierra Nevada in Südspanien am 16. November 1856 erlegten Paares, der Typus von Galerida Theklae major , aus der BREHMschen, jetzt in Tring befindlichen Sammlung’’. By this statement he designated it the lectotype and restricted the type locality to the Sierra Nevada.

A.E. Brehm sexed this individual as a female and stated on the label that it was the female of a male–female pair. Hartert (1918b: 21) erroneously published it as a male. This lectotype is the only Sierra Nevada specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but the implication from the label is that there were at least two.