Galerida viarum Brehm, 1831

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 : 19

Galerida viarum Brehm

Galerida viarum Brehm, 1841 (nec 1831): cols. 123, 126, 127 (zwischen Leipzig und Delitzsch).

Now Galerida cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918b: 20, and Cramp, 1988: 145.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457721 , adult male, collected at Spröda near Delitzsch, 51°32′N, 12°20′E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 1 May 1834, by C.L. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 19) explained that Brehm’s G. viarum of 1841 ‘‘inhabit[ed] the roads between Delitzsch and Leipzig’’. AMNH received four specimens from that area. The above lectotype, designated by Hartert (1918b: 20), is one of a pair tied together. The female, AMNH 457722 with the same data, is a paralectotype, as are AMNH 457723 and AMNH 457724, a male and female tied together, from ‘‘Brinnis bei Leipzig’’.