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
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2014
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2014
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Petronia macrorhynchos
C.L. Brehm
Petronia macrorhynchos
C.L.
Brehm, 1855a: 97
(Greichenland)
.
Now
Petronia petronia petronia
(Linnaeus, 1766)
. See
Hartert, 1918a: 14
;
Vaurie, 1956: 21
;
1959: 584
;
Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 24
;
Dickinson, 2003: 718
; and
Summers-Smith, 2009: 810–811
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 456572
, adult male, collected in
Greece
(= Greichenland), in spring (= vere, as on label), 1847.
From
the
Brehm Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Brehm, in his original description, did not list a type or indicate how many specimens he had. Hartert, by listing the above specimen as the type, designated it the
lectotype
. It is labeled
macrorhynchos
in Brehm’s hand and bears a Rothschild type label. It is the only Brehm specimen of this species from
Greece
in AMNH.