Anthus brachyurus Sundevall, 1850: 100

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 536

Anthus brachyurus Sundevall, 1850: 100 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Habitat in Caffraria , circa Portum Natal, inter gramina, terricola. ”

CURRENT STATUS: Anthus brachyurus brachyurus Sundevall, 1850 ; Motacillidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 308) .

TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 100), in his original description, gave no indication that the type was based on more than one specimen. According to Sundevall’s manuscript acquisition catalogue, the original type series consisted of seven specimens. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 29) referred to NRM 616559 [6559] as a “type”, treated here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 22 January 1840 near Camperdown (upper Umlaas River). The six paralectotypes are: NRM 555609 [6560], a young male collected 23 October 1842 near Camperdown; NRM 616558 [6558], a mounted female collected 24 April 1840 in Durban; RMNH. AVES.122987 [6554], an adult male collected 24 January 1840 near mLazi River, sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; a specimen [6555] of uncertain sex, collected near Camperdown on 12 January 1840, sent on exchange to Lund in 1850, but not present now in the MZLU database; a juvenile [6556] collected 9 February 1840 at Kloppers Lager (Pietermaritzburg), sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); and NHMUK 1876.5.23.673 [6557], a female collected 22 January 1840 at Camperdown, sent on exchange to R.B. Sharpe in London in 1871.

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Camperdown ( Upper Umlaas River ), KwaZulu-Natal .

COMMENTS: Date and place agree with the journal entries.