Galerita cristata maculata 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 : 22-23

Galerita cristata maculata Brehm

Galerita cristata maculata Brehm, 1858: 208 (Assuan in Nubien und Masnou in Spanien).

Now Galerida cristata maculata ( Brehm, 1858) . See Keith et al., 1992: 101.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457774 , adult male, collected at Aswan, 24°05′N, 32°56′E (Times Atlas), Egypt, on 24 March 1850, by Oscar Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 21) designated this male the lectotype, thereby restricting the type locality to Aswan. A paralectotype is AMNH 457775, a female tied together with the lectotype, the pair having been shot by Oscar Brehm with one shot ( Brehm, 1858: 208).

Hartert (1917a: 439) pointed out that the Masneu specimen mentioned in the description, now AMNH 457755, was collected by A.E. Brehm on 1 May 1856, not 1 June 1850 as reported by Brehm (1858: 208), and that A.E. Brehm was not in Spain on the earlier date. He also mentioned that Brehm had crossed out maculata on the label and written in striata , which Hartert considered a nomen nudum. It is a specimen of Galerida cristata pallida .

Galerida cristata imami Meinertzhagen Galerida cristata imami Meinertzhagen, 1923b: 16

(Sok­el­Khamis, 8000 ft., Yemen).

Now Galerida cristata maculata ( Brehm, 1858) . See Peters, 1960a: 60, and Vaurie, 1959: 48.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 557735 , adult female, collected at Sôk al Khamîs, 8000 ft (= Al Khamîs , 15°07′N, 43°55′E, R. J. Dowsett, personal commun.), Yemen, on 11 August 1913, by G. Wyman Bury (no. 684). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: A map in Sclater (1917: opp. p. 131) shows Bury’s route from Hodeida (= Al Hudayah) on the coast to San’aˉ’. Sôk al Khamîs is about three­fourths of the way along this road.

In the original description, Meinertzhagen said that he had 12 specimens from ‘‘Sok­el­Khamis’’, ‘‘Menakha’’, ‘‘Sanaa’’, ‘‘El Kuba’’, and ‘‘Gerba’’. Actually, 12 specimens from the first three localities came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The latter two localities were within the range of G. c. tardinata, of which Meinertzhagen examined 40 specimens. The holotype, said to be in the Rothschild Collection, is the only specimen from Sôk al Khamîs. Paratypes are AMNH 557736–557743 from Manaˉkhah, and AMNH 557744–557746 from San’aˉ’.

Galerida cristata halfae Nicoll

Galerida cristata halfae Nicoll, 1921: 7 (Wadi Halfa) .

Now Galerida cristata halfae Nicoll, 1921 . See Cramp,

1988: 145.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 557624 , adult male, collected at Wadi Halfa , 21°55′N, 31°20′E (Times Atlas), Sudan, on 2 February 1921, by Major Stanley Smyth Flower (no. 21/135). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Nicoll (1922: 688) stated that ‘‘The type of this form and one other example are now in the Tring Museum, the remainder of the collection is in the Giza Zoological Museum.’’ AMNH 557625, an adult female with the same data, is a paratype. The ‘‘remainder of the collection’’ consisted of two additional males and three additional females, also paratypes.

Vaurie (1959: 48) synonymized halfae with Galerida cristata maculata .

Galerita nigricans Brehm

Galerita nigricans Brehm, 1855: 123 (In Aegypten und Thüringen).

Now Galerida cristata nigricans ( Brehm, 1855) . See Hartert, 1918b: 19, and Keith et al., 1992: 101.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457777 , adult male, collected in Egypt. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm described the Egyptian subspecies but included Thüringian specimens, which are quite different. Hartert (1918b: 19) designated the Egyptian specimen the lectotype, thereby restricting the type locality. Five German specimens identified as nigricans by Brehm ( Hartert, 1918b: 19) came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Of these paralectotypes, four were later exchanged with ZFMK; only AMNH 457779, adult male, collected at Gotha, 20 October 1808 (= Galerida cristata cristata ) remains.