Locustella Wodzickii 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 : 23

Locustella Wodzickii Brehm

Locustella Wodzickii Brehm, 1855: 234 (Wolica in Galizien).

Now Locustella luscinioides luscinioides (Savi, 1824) . See Hartert, 1918a: 30, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 614.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455273 , immature female, collected at Wolica , Poland, on 20 August 1853, by Count Wodzicki. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not say how many specimens he had. Hartert (1918a: 30) designated this specimen the lectotype; it is the only Wolica specimen that came to AMNH and the only one labeled ‘‘ Wodzickii ’’. This does not appear to be in Brehm’s hand and may be one of the relabeled specimens mentioned by Hartert (1918a: 5). However, in this case Wodzicki’s original label remains, with the name being written on the back along with ‘‘No. 738’’, the significance of which I have not discovered.