Pyrgita brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 5

Pyrgita brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm

Pyrgita brachyrhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1842 : col. 890 (Diese Subspecies lebt in Dalmatien und Kärnthen).

Now Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 14.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456389 , male, Dalmatia , Croatia, spring (= vere, as on label), not dated. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm did not designate a type but noted in the original description that he had three specimens: two from Dalmatia, one in breeding and one in winter plumage, and a third from Carinthia (= Kärnthen). Only two among those cataloged at AMNH as brachyrhynchos were collected in the given localities. Hartert (1918a: 14), by listing as type the male specimen marked ‘‘vere’’ (vererben?) by Brehm, designated it the lectotype of brachyrhynchos . Hartert on the Rothschild label noted: ‘‘Probably from Feldegg.’’

The second male from Dalmatia, AMNH 456390, marked ‘‘auct.’’ (auctumno) by Brehm is a paralectotype.