Alauda buxtoni Allen

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 : 27

Alauda buxtoni Allen

Alauda buxtoni Allen, 1905: 247 (Gichiga, northeastern

Siberia).

Now Alauda arvensis pekinensis Swinhoe, 1863 . See

Peters, 1960a: 68, Cramp, 1988: 188, and Dickinson and Dekker, 2001a: 76.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 77175 , adult male, collected at Gizhiga , 62°00′N, 160°34′E (Times Atlas), Magadan Oblast, Russian Federation, on 3 May 1901, by N.G. Buxton (no. 586), on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. There are four paratypes, all from Gizhiga: AMNH 77173, 77174, 77176, and 77177.

Allen (1905: 219) quoted Buxton: ‘‘All of the birds in the collection labeled ‘Gichiga’ were collected within a radius of 35 miles from my station at Kooshka, which is situated on the left bank of the Gichiga River in latitude 62°42′E. The greater part of them were collected within a radius of 10 miles.’’ The coordinates of Kushka are given as 61°58′N, 160°19′E (Times Atlas), located near the mouth of the Gizhiga River. A full itinerary was given by Buxton in Allen’s (1903: 101–119) report on the mammals collected.