Curruca nigricapilla Brehm

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 70

Curruca nigricapilla Brehm

Curruca nigricapilla Brehm, 1831: 417 (Sie bewönt unsere Fichtenwälder).

Now Sylvia atricapilla atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 32, and Shirihai et al., 2001: 45, 53.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 455553 and 455554, male and female (tied together), collected in ‘‘Renthendorfer Nadelholz’’, Germany, on 30 June 1830. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his list of the Brehm types, Hartert (1918a: 32) listed both of these specimens as types. Three other Brehm specimens cataloged as nigricapilla came with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 455555 and 455556 were exchanged to ZFMK ; if they are labeled nigricapilla by Brehm, they are also syntypes. AMNH 455557 from Dalmatia, May 1822, was also collected early enough, but because Dalmatia was not included in the range of the form, I do not consider it a syntype. Renthendorf is at 50.48N, 11.58E ( USBGN, 1959) .