Melanocorypha calandra psammochroa Hartert, 1904

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 14

Melanocorypha calandra psammochroa Hartert

Melanocorypha calandra psammochroa Hartert, 1904a: 210 (Dur­Badom) .

Now Melanocorypha calandra psammochroa Hartert, 1904 . See Vaurie, 1959: 34, and Dickinson et al., 2001a: 89.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 555130 , adult male, collected at Dor Baˉdaˉm (= Dur Badom), 37°30′N, 58°25′E (Times Atlas), eastern Iran, on 14 November (Russian calendar) 1898, by N. Zarudny (no. 4420). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The number 14 appears in red on the original label, and it was this number that was cited by Hartert in the original description. It is the number of this specimen within the Zarudny series, and each specimen has a unique number. The number 4420 is written in the same ink as the rest of Zarudny’s label and this appears to be the original field number. The remainder of the Zarudny series of this taxon are paratypes: AMNH 555131–555140 ; judging by the localities given in the description, there are others.

This description appears in volume 1 of Hartert’s ‘‘Die Vögel der Paläarktischen Fauna’’, the publication date of which (on the title page) is 1910. However, various parts of the first volume have different publication dates, as listed by Hartert on p. xiii. Part 2, pages 113–240, including the description of this taxon, was published in June 1904.