Crucirostra intercedens 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 : 76-77

Crucirostra intercedens C.L. Brehm

Crucirostra intercedens C.L. Brehm, 1853: 187 (Er erscheint selten in unsern Wäldern).

Now Loxia curvirostra curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918: 12; Vaurie, 1956b: 25–30; Vaurie, 1959: 648–652; Howell et al., 1968: 288– 293; Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 600–602.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457029 , adult male, collected in the Roda Valley (5 Rodathal), Germany, on 20 May 1819 (not 10 May 1819, as on Rothschild label). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918: 12) listed this male, ‘‘the only adult male in the collection,’’ as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Another specimen, collected on 12 February 1847, was molting from striped juvenal into adult plumage. The six additional specimens cataloged at AMNH as intercedens were exchanged with ZFMK, and this paralectotype, as well as other paralectotypes marked intercedens by Brehm, may be there.

This form is illustrated as No. 6 on the unnumbered plate in Brehm (1853: opp. p. 182). A corner of Brehm’s label on this specimen where that number might have appeared has been cut off.