Phileremos rufescens 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 : 29

Phileremos rufescens Brehm

? Phileremos glacialis Brehm, 1842 : cols. 504, 505 (die Gebirge des nördlichen America).

Phileremos rufescens Brehm, 1855: 122 (Nordamerika) .

Now Eremophila alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918b: 22–23.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457691 , adult male, collected in North America , in winter. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 22–23) designated the above specimen the lectotype of Phileremos rufescens and suspected ‘‘that Phileremos glacialis ... was described from the same specimen, but the diagnosis [of rufescens ]—perhaps by a slip or a misprint—says the opposite!’’ The name Phileremos rufescens appears on the label of the specimen in Brehm’s hand and glacialis does not appear there. A paralectotype (AMNH 457692), female from North America, labeled Phileremos rufescens by Brehm, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.