Cynchramus arundinaceus Brehm, 1012

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 9

Cynchramus arundinaceus Brehm

Cynchramus arundinaceus Brehm, 1831: 1012 (Triest) .

Now Emberiza schoeniclus intermedia Degland, 1849 . See Hartert, 1918: 17, Paynter, 1970b: 35, and Dickinson, 2003: 780.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456237 , adult male, collected at Trieste , 45.39N, 13.47E (Times Atlas), Italy, on 3 October 1829. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm credited Michahelles and Brehm for this name, and the name Emberiza intermedia Michahelles is included in parentheses on Brehm’s label. Hartert (1918: 17) listed the Brehm specimen collected on 3 October 1829 as the type of arundinaceus , thereby designating it the lectotype, and commented that the specimen was collected by Michahelles. Michahelles’ manuscript name, intermedius , was introduced by Degland in 1849 ( Paynter, 1970b: 35), long after C. arundinaceus was introduced by Brehm, and years before Brehm’s name, C. canneti was introduced. As Hartert (1918: 17) pointed out, arundinaceus Brehm (nec arundinacea Gmelin, 1774: 195) was preoccupied. Brehm’s name, as a homonym of Gmelin’s name, needs a replacement name, for which intermedia Degland is available.

Three additional specimens cataloged at AMNH as arundinaceus were not so labeled by Brehm; they were collected at Pisa, a locality not mentioned by Brehm.