Galerita altirostris 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 : 21

Galerita altirostris Brehm

Galerita altirostris Brehm, 1855: 124 (Oberägypten, selten nördlich).

Now Galerida cristata altirostris ( Brehm, 1855) . See

Hartert, 1918b: 21, and Keith et al., 1992: 101.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457770 , adult male, collected in ‘‘ Nubien’ ’, on 21 September 1851, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In reference to the above specimen, Hartert (1917a: 440) concluded that ‘‘the type of the name altirostris must be regarded as an adult male shot by A.E. Brehm in ‘Nubia,’ 21.ix.1851. The label only says ‘Nubien,’ but the bird had been shot near Akascheh and not very far from Ambukol, according to A.E. Brehm’s Reiseskizzen.’’

A second specimen, AMNH 457771, is a paralectotype with the same data as the above specimen except that Brehm had altered the original designation of ‘‘male’’ to ‘‘female’’. Hartert noted on the Rothschild label that it is an adult male.