Galerida cristata deltae 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 : 23

Galerida cristata deltae Hartert

Galerida cristata deltae Hartert, 1897: 144 (Alexandria,

Damietta, and Cairo).

Now Galerida cristata nigricans ( Brehm, 1855) . See

Hartert, 1904a: 227, and Cramp, 1988: 145.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 557143 , adult male, collected at Dumyât (= Damietta), 31°26′N, 31°48′E ( Times Atlas ), Egypt, on 22 November 1881, by Gustav Schrader. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, but Hartert (1919:165) listed the type as a specimen bearing the above data. There are, however, two males with the same data. The above specimen bears the Rothschild type label. Recognizing that it was Hartert’s intent to consid­ er this specimen the type and that it has been so considered, both in the Rothschild Collection and in AMNH, I hereby designate AMNH 557143 the lectotype in order to avoid the possiblity of confusion in interpreting the older literature. AMNH 557129–557131, collected at Cairo by Bartlett, and AMNH 557134–557142, collected at Damietta by Schrader, are paralectotypes.