Alauda albigularis 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 : 27

Alauda albigularis Brehm

Alauda albigularis Brehm, 1841 : cols. 137, 152 (Ragusa und Klagenfurth).

Now Alauda arvensis arvensis Linnaeus, 1758 . See Vaurie, 1959: 54, and Cramp, 1988: 188.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457931 , adult female, collected at Dubrovnik (= Ragusa), 42°40′N, 18°07′E (Times Atlas), Croatia, on 4 May 1839, by Michahelles. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm stated that he had only two specimens of his A. albigularis . The above specimen was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918b: 22). The second specimen, AMNH 457930, adult male, collected at Klagenfurt, 46°38′N, 14°20′E (Times Atlas), Austria, on 5 March 1826, was said by Hartert (1918b: 22) to be a specimen of A. a. arvensis , in contrast to the lectotype, which he thought agreed with A. a. cantarella Bonaparte, 1850. However, modern interpretations ( Vaurie, 1959: 54; Cramp, 1988: 188) place specimens from Germany and Austria in the nominotypical subspecies A. a. arvensis . AMNH 457930 was exchanged to ZFMK.