Alauda galeridaria 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 galeridaria Brehm

Alauda galeridaria Brehm, 1841 : cols. 137, 151 (Nerdin, Renthendorf).

Now Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918b: 22, and Cramp, 1988: 188.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457955 , adult female, collected at Nerdin near Anklam, 53°52′N, 13°42′E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 23 March 1833, by Eugen F. von Homeyer. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm (1841:151) listed 12 specimens. Six specimens, collected before 1841 and entered in the AMNH catalog as galeridaria , came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1918b: 22) designated the above specimen the lectotype. It is the first specimen mentioned by Brehm and all of the data on the specimen match those reported by Brehm. The other five specimens, AMNH 457948, 457949, and 457952–457954, were exchanged with ZFMK. As cataloged in AMNH, the dates do not match those given by Brehm and they may not be paralectotypes.