Calamoherpe crassirostris Brehm

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 26

Calamoherpe crassirostris Brehm

Calamoherpe crassirostris Brehm, 1855: 235 (im Morgenlande).

Now Acrocephalus scirpaceus scirpaceus (Hermann, 1804) . See Hartert, 1918a: 31, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 620–621.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455439 , adult male, collected in Upper Egypt (‘‘Oberegyptan’’, as on label), on 10 May 1850, by Oskar or Alfred Brehm (according to Hartert, 1918a: 31). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not say how many specimens he had. AMNH 455439 is the only specimen marked crassirostris in Brehm’s hand and was listed as the type (5 lectotype) by Hartert (1918a: 31); three additional specimens cataloged as crassirostris are marked gracilirostris and were collected after the above description was published; they have no type status. All of the specimens remain in AMNH.