Alauda montana Brehm

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 : 26

Alauda montana Brehm

Alauda montana Brehm, 1831: 319 (auf den höchsten

Bergen des thüringer Waldes).

Now Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918b: 21, and Cramp, 1988: 188.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457899 , adult female, collected in the Thuringian Forest near Zella­Mehlis , 50°40′N, 10°41′E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 23 June 1827. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm (1831: 319) did not say how many specimens he had, but implied that he had several. Hartert (1918b: 21) designated this specimen the lectotype. This is the only Thuringian Forest specimen of this taxon that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Alauda Bugiensis Löwenstein and Brehm

Alauda Bugiensis Löwenstein and Brehm in Brehm,

1841: cols. 137, 149 (Bug auf der nördlichen Land­

zunge von Rügen und eine Bergebene 20 Minuten von Renthendorf). Now Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918b: 22, and Cramp, 1988: 188.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457855 , unsexed, collected on 6 May 1835, at Bug, 54°37′N, 13°14′E (Times Atlas), Rügen Island , Germany, by Baron Eugen von Homeyer and Löwenstein.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 22) designated the above specimen the lectotype. Of the Brehm specimens cataloged as A. bugiensis , only one has a date early enough to qualify as a paralectotype: AMNH 457860, collected at Renthendorf on 11 January 1841, was exchanged to ZFMK.