Budytes pygmaeus A.E. 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 : 41-42

Budytes pygmaeus A.E. Brehm

Budytes pygmaeus A. E. Brehm, 1854: 74 , footnote (Nordost­Afrika).

Now Motacilla flava pygmaea (A.E. Brehm, 1854) . See Hartert, 1918b: 25, Keith et al., 1992: 199, and Alström and Mild, 2003: 268.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 458562 , adult male, collected in lower Egypt, in January 1850, by Oscar Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: A.E. Brehm did not say how many specimens he had, only stating that the form had been collected by his brother. Hartert (1905a: 287) had at first considered this single specimen as an aberrant M. f. flava , but later ( Hartert, 1910a: XXXIX, footnote 3, 1918b: 25) accepted pygmaea as valid and designated the above specimen as the lectotype after having examined additional specimens from Egypt.