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, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE
Author
LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
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Alauda arvensis herberti
Hartert
Alauda arvensis herberti
Hartert, 1923d: 149
(
Bangkok
,
Siam
).
Now
Alauda gulgula herberti
Hartert, 1923
. See
Peters, 1960a: 70
,
Robson, 2000: 476
, and Dickinson et al., 2001a: 93.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 555589
, adult male, collected in
Bangkok
,
13°44′N
,
100°30′E
(Times Atlas),
Thailand
, on
31 March 1915
, by
W.J.F. Williamson. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description,
Hartert (1923d: 149)
said that the type, an adult male collected by Williamson on
31 March 1915
, was in the Rothschild Museum;
in his list of
Rothschild
types, he (
Hartert, 1928: 210
) did not add any further information.
There
are
two adult
males collected on
31 March 1915
, which would therefore have to be considered
syntypes
. The above specimen,
AMNH 555589
, bears the Rothschild type label and the Rothschild Collection label marked ‘‘Type of
Alauda arvensis herberti
Hartert’’ in Hartert’s hand. It is undoubtedly the specimen intended as the type and I hereby designate it the
lectotype
to remove the ambiguity. The
paralectotype
is
AMNH 555591
.
Hartert (1923d: 149)
gave measurements of
four males
(
88–91 mm
) and
one female
(85.5 mm), all from
Bangkok
. In fact,
five males
and
one female
in the type series came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Four of the males and the female were collected by Williamson in
February–June 1915
(AMNH 555589–555593), and a juv. male, AMNH 555588, was collected on
6 July 1919
by E.G. Herbert, for whom the taxon was named. Herbert noted that he collected this specimen and saw several other juveniles that had ‘‘nearly finished moulting from the whitetipped feathers, and have no tail feathers... ’’. This specimen is indeed without tail feathers, and the third primary from the outside is growing. Hartert would not have included its measurements, and its wing measures only 80.0 mm.
Hartert (1923d: 149)
indicated that he included wing measurements of the
four males
collected by Williamson; however, AMNH 555592 has the outer primaries worn and badly broken. While this could have occurred subsequent to his taking measurements, my measurements of the wings of the three other males,
87–91 mm
, almost exactly correspond to Hartert’s published measurements. The wing of the above
lectotype
measures
88 mm
. The female wing measures 85.0 mm.