Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 5. Passeriformes: Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Motacillidae, Campephagidae, Pycnonotidae, Irenidae, Laniidae, Vangidae, Bombycillidae, Dulidae, Cinclidae, Author LeCroy, M. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003 2003-09-30 2003 278 1 156 journal article 0003-0090 Lanius paradoxus A.E. Brehm Lanius paradoxus A.E. Brehm, 1854: 75 (‘‘Nord­Ost­ Afrika’’). Now Lanius senator niloticus (Bonaparte, 1853) . See Hartert, 1907a: 436 , Fry et al., 2000: 371 , and Harris and Franklin, 2000: 181 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 457455 , adult male, collected on the Blue Nile , on 12 January 1851 , by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Hartert (1918b: 29) designated the above specimen the lectotype ; it does not bear an A.E. Brehm label. In C.L. Brehm’s hand, it is labeled Lanius paradoxus major , with data as given above, and is noted ‘‘species rarissima a nobis detecta, differt a cognatis radice caudae alba’’ (very rare species, discovered by us, differing in a recognizable white base of tail). There is no exact type locality given in the description of this form, but A.E. Brehm (1854: 75) stated: ‘‘ L. rufus zerstreut sich durch ganz Nord­ Ost­Afrika’’, and in a footnote: ‘‘Mit letzterem [ L. rufus ] kann man leicht eine neue Art verwechseln, die wir L. paradoxus genannt haben.’’ The above lectotype and another undated specimen from Senegal , AMNH 457456, are the only two Brehm specimens of this taxon from north Africa possibly collected before 1854.