Calandrella minor nicolli Hartert

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

Calandrella minor nicolli Hartert

Calandrella minor nicolli Hartert, 1909b: 9 (Damietta). Now Calandrella rufescens nicolli Hartert, 1909 . See

Keith et al., 1992: 81.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556131 , adult male, collected at Dumyât (= Damietta), 31°26′N, 31°48′E ( Times Atlas ), Egypt, on 5 January 1908, by M.J. Nicoll (no. 268). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Nicoll’s unique field number for the type, thus designating a holotype. He gave measurements for three males and gave the range of the subspecies as the Nile Delta. AMNH 556132, male, collected at Damietta, on 5 January 1908, by Nicoll, no. 267, is a paratype. AMNH 556133, male, collected 12 March, year unknown, by Schrader, may be the other paratype, but its provenance and date are in question. The original label on the Schrader specimen is printed on one side with ‘‘Ornithologische Sammlung R. Tancre´. Anclam. Pommern’’. Hartert has added: ‘‘G. Schrad­ er coll.!’’ On the reverse appears, in a hand unknown: ‘‘Alaud. Reboudia Loche. ϐ, 12 March, Chercah[?], Algier.’’ Hartert noted the following on the Rothschild label: ‘‘Tancré used to mix up specimens from Algeria and Lower Egypt, both collected by Schrader. This might therefore be from Egypt as well?? E.H.’’, and on the reverse: ‘‘Must be Calandrella minor nicolli [this is double underlined] Hart. and collected by Schrader near Damietta!’’ An additional three males and a female of C. r. nicolli ,collected by Loat in 1903– 1904 at Lake Menzaleh, Egypt, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. They were apparently not a part of the type series and may have been acquired later.