Anthus montanellus 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 : 53-54

Anthus montanellus Brehm

Anthus montanellus Brehm, 1824: 965 (bewohnt im

Sommer die höchsten Berge des thüringer Waldes).

Now Anthus pratensis (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert,

1918b: 24, and Alström and Mild, 2003: 122.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 458194 , adult male, collected on the ‘‘ Rückenebene des thuringer Waldes’ ’, Germany, on 18 June 1823. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm (1824: 965) noted that ‘‘mein Freund Bonde in Zella schickte mir 3 im Juni 1823 daselbst geschossene.’’ The above specimen is the only Brehm specimen in AMNH collected in June 1823 and was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918b: 24), who pointed out in a footnote that the first description of montanellus was published in 1824, not 1831 as he had thought earlier ( Hartert, 1905a: 275). This lectotype has the head detached from the body and tied onto one leg.

Paralectotypes at AMNH: AMNH 458193 , male, collected 7 October 1820 at Zella ; AMNH 458195 , male, collected 12 June 1820, at Bargrucken , Thuringian Forest ; and AMNH 458196 , female, collected 20 May 1823, at Bargrucken. Three additional specimens, exchanged to ZFMK, were collected early enough to have been in Brehm’s hand when he described the taxon and, if they are identified as montanellus by Brehm, may be paralectotypes .