Curruca undulata 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 : 72

Curruca undulata Brehm

Curruca undulata Brehm, 1831: 415 (Ahlsdorf) .

Now Sylvia nisoria nisoria (Bechstein, 1792) . See Hartert 1918a: 31, Shirihai et al., 2001: 95, 103, and Mey, 2003.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455522 , adult male, collected at Ahlsdorf , Germany, in June 1824. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 31) listed this specimen as the type of undulata , thereby designating it the lectotype, but incorrectly listing it as having been described in the genus Sylvia . He also noted that it was collected by von Seyffertitz. There are three additional specimens from Ahlsdorf cataloged at AMNH. One, AMNH 455528, is labeled undulata by Brehm and is a paralectotype. The other two, AMNH 455526 and 455527, exchanged to ZMB, were collected at Ahlsdorf prior to the publication of the name and may also be paralectotypes.

See Mey (2003) for 1792 as the date of publication of Bechstein’s name.