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.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Calamoherpe orientalis
Brehm
Calamoherpe orientalis
Brehm, 1855: 235
(im Morgenlande).
Now
Acrocephalus scirpaceus scirpaceus
(Hermann, 1804)
. See
Hartert, 1918a: 31
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 620–621
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 455331
, adult female, collected in
Upper
Egypt
(‘‘Oberegyptan’’, as on label), in
March 1850
, by Oskar Brehm. From the
Brehm Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Brehm did not say how many specimens he had. The above specimen is the only one labeled
orientalis
by Brehm that came to AMNH; it was designated the
lectotype
by
Hartert (1918a: 31)
. Two of three additional specimens cataloged at AMNH as
orientalis
, AMNH
455329 and 455330, were from
Spain
, were not labeled
orientalis
by Brehm, and were collected after the description was published. The third (undated) specimen, AMNH 455332, was from Cape Colony, and it is doubtless the specimen referred to by
Brehm (1855: 235
, footnote) as a specimen of his ‘‘
Cal. rufescens
’’. It was labeled
rufescens
by Brehm and undoubtedly was purchased by him in Berlin. It was collected by Krebs and still retains the number ‘‘XI.196’’, which refers to its number in the list of Krebs’ eleventh shipment of specimens to Lichtenstein in Berlin (see Ffollett and
Liversidge, 1971: 224
and
LeCroy, 2003: 100–101
). It is a specimen of
Acrocephalus
b.
baeticatus
.