Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa Author Dean, W. Richard J. 0000-0002-6541-3565 Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. wrjdean 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6541 - 3565 & Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. & South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa. wrjdean01@gmail.com Author Åhlander, Erik Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Author Johansson, Ulf S. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-12 5134 4 521 560 journal article 55543 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3 6cdcd17b-e695-4d2b-9f19-d6c2cf59a722 1175-5326 6541737 79D78E49-C127-4EB8-BEA2-784B0BC65363 Bradypterus brevirostris Sundevall, 1850: 103 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Caffraria inferiori .” CURRENT STATUS: Schoenicola brevirostris brevirostris ( Sundevall, 1850 ) ; Locustellidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 466 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: In Sundevall’s original description (1850: 103) and his acquisition journal only a single male is listed. The holotype , NRM 568781 [6751], is an adult male collected 14 April 1841 at Camperdown (Upper Umlaas River). VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: uMlazi River mouth, near Durban , KwaZulu-Natal . COMMENTS: Type locality upper Umlaas River (= Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal ) according to Gyldenstolpe (1926) . However, Wahlberg stayed at the mouth of the uMlazi River from 11 March 1841 until at least 7 May ( Brinck 1955 ). Entries in the journal are intermittent through March and there are only two entries for April. The next entry on 7 May states that he had returned to Congella, Durban. There is no note that Wahlberg had gone to Camperdown during this period, and all specimens collected in March, April and early May are labelled uMlazi River or Durban (the latter probably in error). The type locality can be restricted to uMlazi River mouth, near Durban. In his type catalogue, Gyldenstolpe (1926: 46) observed that Sundevall (1850: 103) had priority over Cabanis’ paper of the same year and thus that Catriscus apicalis Cabanis, 1851 (corrected date, see Dickinson et al. 2011 ) is a subjective junior synonym of Bradypterus brevirostris Sundevall, 1850 .