Curruca albistriata Brehm, 1855

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 : 74

Curruca albistriata Brehm

Curruca albistriata Brehm, 1855: 229 (In Egypten, wahrscheinlich auch in Südosteuropa).

Now Sylvia cantillans albistriata ( Brehm, 1855) . See Hartert, 1918a: 33, and Shirihai et al., 2001: 380–381.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455634 , adult male, collected in Egypt, undated. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 33) listed this undated specimen as the type of albistriata , thereby designating it the lectotype, but there is some doubt about its status. It was first labeled Curruca rufigularis by Brehm; rufigularis was marked out and albistriata added and then marked out by Brehm. On the reverse of this label, Brehm wrote the name Curruca leucopogon orientalis . I found no other Brehm specimen in the collection labeled albistriata and provisionally accept this specimen as the lectotype.