Locustella strepitans 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 strepitans Brehm

Locustella stepitans Brehm, 1855: 233 (in Galizien). Now Locustella fluviatilis (Wolf, 1810) . See Hartert, 1918a: 30, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 614.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455283 , adult male, collected at Lubartow , 51.29N, 22.38E (Times Atlas), Poland. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm did not say how many specimens he had. The specimen from Lubartow (5 Ljubartow, as on label) was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 30). Its original label appears to be Count Wodzicki’s. Brehm labeled it Sylvia fluviatilis strepitans and added ‘‘No. 690’’, the significance of which I have been unable to discover. Hartert (1918a: 30) gave the date ‘‘ 5 June 1853 ’’, which does not appear on the original label or in the description. I did not find other specimens in the collection labeled strepitans by Brehm.