Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae Author LeCroy, M. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Curruca musica Brehm Curruca musica Brehm, 1855: 228 (Sie kommt warscheinlich aus Südosteuropa und Asien nach Sennaar). Now Sylvia hortensis crassirostris Cretzschmar, 1930 . See Hartert, 1918a: 32 , and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 697 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 455543 , adult male, collected on the Blue Nile , Sennar, Sudan , on 14 February (not September) 1850, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Brehm did not indicate how many specimens he had; the above specimen was listed as the type of musica by Hartert (1918a: 32) , thereby designating it the lectotype . I did not find other specimens labeled musica by Brehm. The collecting locality on the lectotype is written as ‘‘Baeher el Asrak’’. According to Seltzer (1962: 232) , this is Bahr el Azraq, Arabic for the Blue Nile . The collecting locality would have been Old Sennar, 13.40N , 33.33E (R. Dowsett, personal commun.). The date on the original label is ‘‘14 Fbr [1]850’’, miscopied onto the Rothschild label as 14 September 1850 . Also, this is another case in which C.L. Brehm apparently decided to change the sex given on the original label. It was originally sexed as a female on A.E. Brehm’s field label, with a male symbol written over the female symbol by C.L. Brehm. This was correctly copied onto the Rothschild Collection label, but incorrectly identified as a male on the Rothschild type label (and changed to a female by hand unknown). It was listed as a female by Hartert (1918a: 32) , who rarely questioned information provided by A.E. Brehm. Steinheimer (2005: 211) provided a corrected date for Cretzschmar’s description of S. h. crassirostris . Shirihai et al. (2001: 157) considered S. hortensis and S. crassirostris allospecies of the superspecies hortensis .