Spinus obscurus C.L. Brehm

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 65-66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627598
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B4687A0-9E45-FF8E-FC93-7299FE8A1478
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Spinus obscurus C.L. Brehm
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Treatment

Spinus obscurus C.L. Brehm, 1855: 108 (Aeusserst selten in Deutschland).

Now considered an aberrant specimen of Carduelis spinus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . See Hartert 1903: 71; and Hartert, 1918: 10.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 456881 View Materials , female, collected in the Thüringer Wald , Germany, on 6 April 1819. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm described only the female and said that it was very rare in Germany. He probably had a single specimen, which is apparently lacking all yellow pigment in the plumage.