Budytes paradoxus 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 : 42

Budytes paradoxus Brehm

Budytes superciliaris A.E. Brehm, 1854: 74 (Charthum) .

Budytes paradoxus Brehm, 1855: 142 (no locality given).

Now Motacilla flava flava Linnaeus, 1758 . See Alström and Mild, 2003: 272.

HOLOTYPE?: AMNH 458548 , [adult male], collected at Khartoum, 15°33′N, 32°35′E (Times Atlas), on the Blue Nile, Sudan, in March 1851, by Alfred E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918) did not list this specimen in his list of Brehm types or in any of his subsequent Rothschild type lists. However, he ( Hartert, 1905a: 295) did consider A.E. Brehm’s Budytes superciliaris to be based on an aberrant specimen with a white eyestripe and C.L. Brehm’s B. paradoxus to be based on the same specimen. The above specimen has a white eyestripe and the label has paradoxus written on it in C.L. Brehm’s hand. Hartert had put a Rothschild type label on it, but queried its status.

Vaurie et al. (1960: 131) considered the taxon intermediate between Motacilla flava subsp. and M. flava feldegg . See Alström and Mild (2003: 274–279) for a discussion of these intergrading populations.