Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2005
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2005
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Luscinia eximia
Brehm
Luscinia eximia
Brehm, 1855: 144
(
Ungarn
). Now
Luscinia luscinia
(Linnaeus, 1758)
. See Har
tert, 1918a: 34, and
Cramp, 1988: 616
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 454819
, adult male, collected at
Budapest
(5 Pesth, on label), 478309N, 198039E (Times Atlas),
Hungary
, on
13 September 1838
.
From
the
Brehm Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: This specimen bears the name
Luscinia eximia
in Brehm’s hand, the Rothschild Collection label bears the correct data, and
Hartert (1918a: 34)
, in designating it the
lectotype
, correctly gave the data. However, the Rothschild type labels for this specimen and for the type of
Luscinia hybrida
, below, were reversed, so a corrected AMNH type label has been added. AMNH 454823, adult male from
Budapest
(5 Pesth), collected in
May 1838
, and labeled
eximia
by Brehm is the only
paralectotype
in AMNH. This had been mistakenly cataloged at AMNH as
pomarina
. A third specimen, AMNH 454820, incorrectly cataloged as
eximia
, is from ‘‘Pommern’’, is labeled as
pomarina
by Brehm, and is not a
paralectotype
of
eximia
.
Ripley (1964: 40)
included
luscinia
in the genus
Erithacus
.
Sibley and Monroe (1990: 532)
treated the genus
Luscinia
in the tribe
Saxicolini
, subfamily
Muscicapinae
;
Dickinson (2003: 675)
placed it in the subfamily
Saxicolinae
, family
Muscicapidae
. Molecular studies of
Luscinia luscinia
are reported by
Wink et al. (2002a
,
2002b
).