Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Passer rufidorsalis megarhynchos C.L. Brehm Passer rufidorsalis C.L. Brehm, 1855b: 277 (in N.- O.-Afrika). Passer rufidorsalis megarhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1856: 376 (in Ostsudahn und sind bei Chartum ). Now Passer domesticus rufidorsalis C.L. Brehm, 1855 . See Hartert, 1918a: 15 ; Vaurie, 1959: 570– 571 ; Dickinson, 2003: 716 ; and Summers-Smith, 2009: 793–794 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 456520 , adult male, collected on the Blue Nile ( Blauer Nil , as on label), Sudan , on 25 October 1850 , by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description of rufidorsalis , Brehm did not say how many specimens he had or identify a specimen that could be considered a type; however, the only locality mentioned was ‘‘N.-O-Afrika.’’ Hartert (1918a: 15) discussed the species and considered the above specimen the type of P. rufidorsalis , thereby designating it the lectotype . Although the specimen is marked ‘‘ Passer rufidorsalis medius’’ by Brehm, Hartert was unable to confirm that the name ‘‘medius’’ had ever been published. Later, Vaurie (1959: 570) restricted the type locality of P. rufidorsalis to Kartoum , Sudan . This restriction is not valid according to the Code (ICZN, 1999: 87, Art. 76.2), as the Blue Nile is the collecting locality of the lectotype , according to the label information. Hartert (1918a: 15) also thought that the same specimen fit Brehm’s (1856: 376–377) description of Passer rufidorsalis megarhynchos and was the type of both names. In his description of megarhynchos , Brehm divided his P. rufidorsalis into two subspecies, megarhynchos and microrhynchos , noting that he had specimens of both in both sexes. There are only two Brehm specimens labeled ‘‘ medius ’’ by him, the other being a female specimen also said to have come from the Blue Nile and collected on the same date. If AMNH 456520 is accepted as the lectotype of megarhynchos , then AMNH 456522, female, collected on the Blue Nile , on 25 October 1850 , by A.E. Brehm should be considered a paralectotype of megarhynchos . Both megarhynchos and microrhynchos were said to live ‘‘in Ostsudahn und sind bei Chartum nicht eben selten,’’ but in the description of P. rufidorsalis , the only locality mentioned was northeast Africa. AMNH 456523, female, was collected at Khartoum on 30 September 1850 , but it is labeled ‘‘minor’’ by Brehm and was not discussed by Hartert.