Caricicola Bonelli 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 : 24

Caricicola Bonelli Brehm

Caricicola Bonelli Brehm, 1855: 236 (in Italien).

Now Acrocephalus melanopogon melanopogon (Temminck, 1823) . See Hartert, 1918a: 30, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 616.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455513 , adult male, collected at Pisa , 43.43N, 10.24E (Times Atlas), Italy, in April. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm gave no information concerning his specimens except that both C. bonelli and C. melanopogon were from Italy and that bonelli had a much longer bill. This specimen appears to have a very long bill because the base of the bill is damaged and some of the feathers are missing. It is labeled ‘‘ Caricicola Bonelli ’’ by Brehm, with melanopogon added above, and is the male, collected in April, that Hartert chose as the lectotype of C. bonelli . AMNH 455515, a female from Pisa, also collected in April, is labeled ‘‘ Caricicola Bonelli ’’ by Brehm, with ‘‘ Bonelli ’’ marked out and melanopogon written above. I consider this specimen a paralectotype of bonelli , even though its bill appears normal. AMNH 455514, a male collected at Pisa is not labeled ‘‘ Bonelli ’’ by Brehm and I do not consider it a paralectotype. Brehm labeled it Caricicola melanopogon communis , but neither Hartert nor I have discovered the source of this name.