Budytes fasciatus 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

Budytes fasciatus Brehm

Budytes fasciatus Brehm, 1855: 141 (Galizien und Ungarn).

Now Motacilla flava flava Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert 1918b: 25, Vaurie, 1959: 76, and Alström and Mild, 2003: 268.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 458360 , adult male, collected in the Galicia region of Poland, on 5 May 1852. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Considering Brehm’s (1855: 141) description of his birds from Galicia and Hungary to be a valid description, Hartert (1918b: 25) designated the above specimen, collected by Count Wodzicki, the lectotype. The paralectotypes are AMNH 458359, male, collected in Hungary on 10 April 1852, and AMNH 458361, male, collected in Galicia, Poland, on 11 April 1852. These three specimens are apparently the ones Brehm referred to in his description cited above, based on localities and year of collection, and all three are labeled fasciatus in Brehm’s hand. However, Budytes fasciatus Brehm, 1855 , is preoccupied by Motacilla fasciata Bechstein, 1795 , and Budytes fasciatus Zander, 1851 (see below), and should it ever be used, would need to be renamed.