Turdus obsoletus Brehm

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 46-47

Turdus obsoletus Brehm

Turdus obsoletus Brehm, 1862: 391 ( Japan) . Now Turdus pallidus Gmelin, 1789 . See Hartert,

1910a: 655, and Clement, 2000: 372.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 575955, adult male, collected in Japan. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1910a: 655) listed this name in the synonymy of Turdus pallidus , but he did not treat it in his list of Brehm types in the Rothschild Collection ( Hartert, 1918a) or in any of his other lists of types in the Rothschild Collection. The above specimen does, however, bear a Rothschild type label, and obsoletus is written on the original Brehm label in Brehm’s hand. Brehm did not say how many specimens he had and there is no date of collection on this specimen; however, it is almost certain that he possessed it when he described this form in 1862 and unlikely that it was added between that date and his death in 1864 ( Hartert, 1918a: 5).

Turdus obsoletus Brehm , September 1862, is preoccupied by Turdus obsoletus Lawrence , February, 1862 (5 Turdus obsoletus obsoletus ).

Turdus seyffertitzii Brehm

Turdus seyffertitzii Brehm, 1824: 972 (Ahlsdorf) . Now Turdus obscurus Gmelin 1789 . See Hartert,

1918a: 33, and Clement, 2000: 369.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 576049 , male ‘‘pr. auct.’’ (5 primo auctumno, first autumn), collected at Ahlsdorf bei Wittenberg, 518539N, 128399E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 30 September 1823, by Freiherr von Seyffertitz. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm had a single specimen with data as above, and identified as seffertitzii in Brehm’s hand. The specimen was formerly mounted. I have not seen the original description of this form; however, Brehm (1862: 390) said: ‘‘Das beschriebene Männchen wurde bei Ahlsdorf unweit Herzberg in Sachsen im September 1823 gefangen und mir von dem Freiherrn von Seyffertitz gütigst übersandt.’’

Turdus juniperorum Brehm

Turdus juniperorum Brehm, 1828 : col. 74 (Ahls­

dorf).

Now Turdus pilaris Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert,

1918a: 33, and Clement, 2000: 387.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 574323 , adult male, collected at Ahlsdorf near Wittenberg, 518539N, 128399E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 20 July 1824, by Freiherr von Seyffertitz. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 33), who noted that 1828 was the first date of publication of the name juniperorum . AMNH 574328, labeled juniperorum by Brehm, is a paralectotype. Other specimens collected before 1828 and exchanged to ZMB, if labeled juniperorum by Brehm, may also be paralectotypes.

Molecular studies of Turdus pilaris are reported by Wink et al. (2002a, 2002b).

Turdus auritus conquisitus Bangs Turdus auritus conquisitus Bangs, 1921: 591 (Li­

Chiang, Snow Mountains, 10,000 feet, Yun­

nan).

Now Turdus mupinensis Laubmann, 1920 . See

Ripley, 1964: 206, and Clement, 2000: 396.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 143452 , adult female, collected at Li­Chiang , 268519N, 1008169E (Times Atlas), Snow Mountains , 10,000 ft, Yunnan, China, on 16 November 1916, by Roy Chapman Andrews and Edmund Heller on the Asiatic Zoological Expedition (no. 394).

COMMENTS: Bangs had a single specimen. Cheng (1987: 643) gave this type locality as ‘‘Xueshan, Lijiang River’’.

Turdus auritus Verreaux, 1871 , was found to be preoccupied by Turdus auritus Gmelin, 1789 , and Laubmann (1920: 17) provided T. mupinensis as a nomen novum.