Calamoherpe orientalis 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 orientalis Brehm

Calamoherpe orientalis 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 455331 , adult female, collected in Upper Egypt (‘‘Oberegyptan’’, as on label), in March 1850, by Oskar Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not say how many specimens he had. The above specimen is the only one labeled orientalis by Brehm that came to AMNH; it was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 31). Two of three additional specimens cataloged at AMNH as orientalis, AMNH 455329 and 455330, were from Spain, were not labeled orientalis by Brehm, and were collected after the description was published. The third (undated) specimen, AMNH 455332, was from Cape Colony, and it is doubtless the specimen referred to by Brehm (1855: 235, footnote) as a specimen of his ‘‘ Cal. rufescens ’’. It was labeled rufescens by Brehm and undoubtedly was purchased by him in Berlin. It was collected by Krebs and still retains the number ‘‘XI.196’’, which refers to its number in the list of Krebs’ eleventh shipment of specimens to Lichtenstein in Berlin (see Ffollett and Liversidge, 1971: 224 and LeCroy, 2003: 100–101). It is a specimen of Acrocephalus b. baeticatus .