Melanocorypha Apetzii A.E. 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 : 17

Melanocorypha Apetzii A.E. Brehm

Melanocorypha Apetzii A.E. Brehm, 1857b: 455 (Murcia; Syrien).

Now Calandrella rufescens apetzii (A.E. Brehm, 1857) .

See Hartert, 1918b: 18, and Cramp, 1988: 135.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457681 , adult female, collected at Murcia, 37°59′N, 01°08′W (Times Atlas), Spain, on 23 August 1856, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, A.E. Brehm (1857b: 455–456) noted that there was only one Murcia specimen in his father’s collection and a second specimen from Syria. The above specimen from Murcia was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918b: 18). The paralectotype from Syria is AMNH 457682, an adult male, vere (spring), collected in Syria, but the locality is questioned by Hartert on the label.

Hartert (1910a: XXV, note 2) pointed out that this name is older than Calandrella baetica Dress­ er, 1873, and must be used.