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 assimilis Brehm Curruca assimilis Brehm, 1855: 228 (Kommt aus Südosteuropa bis nach Sennaar). Now Sylvia curruca curruca (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918a: 32 , and Shirihai et al., 2001: 121 , 132–136. LECTOTYPE : AMNH 455625 , adult female, collected at Sennar on the Blue Nile ( 5 ‘‘blauen Fluss’’), Sudan , in December 1850 , by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Hartert (1918a: 32) listed this specimen from the Blue Nile as the type of assimilis , thereby designating it the lectotype . Both Brehm, in the original description, and Hartert (1918a: 32) called attention to the unusual white marking on the outer rectrix of the lectotype . Three additional specimens were labeled assimilis by Brehm: paralectotypes AMNH 455619, female, collected at Edfu, Upper Egypt , 20 March 1850 ; AMNH 455621, female, from the Blue Nile, collected in December 1850 ; and AMNH 455622, male, collected at Sakle in Nubia, 22 September 1851 . According to R. Dowsett (personal commun.), the ‘‘Sennar’’ of the lectotype would have been Old Sennar, 13.40N , 33.33E .