Galerida cristata festae Hartert, 1922

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 : 20

Galerida cristata festae Hartert

Galerida cristata festae Hartert, 1922e: 12 (near Bengasi).

Now Galerida cristata festae Hartert, 1922 . See Keith et al., 1992: 100.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 557678 , adult male, collected at Benghazi, 32°07′N, 20°05′E (Times Atlas), Lybia , on 27 March 1922, by Ernst Hartert and Carl Hilgert. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen bears the Rothschild type label in Hartert’s hand and was undoubtedly the specimen he intended as the holotype. However, there are two specimens with the same data and neither the original description nor Hartert (1928: 202) discriminated between them. I hereby designate AMNH 557678 the lectotype, recognizing that this was Hartert’s intent and that it has been considered the ‘‘type’’ since the description was published. The paralectotype is AMNH 557679.