Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz

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 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775737
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D160F03-FFA8-FF82-7CF5-FBEE1F28F9CD
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scientific name	Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz
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Hirundo rustica afghanica Koelz, 1939: 75 (Baghlan, Afghanistan).

Now Hirundo rustica rustica Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . See Vaurie, 1951b: 20, and Dickinson et al., 2001b: 148.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 465671 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Baghlan, 36°11′N, 68°44′E (Times Atlas), Afghanistan, on 1 July 1937, by Walter Koelz. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description Koelz (1939: 75) gave the wing measurement of the type as 128 mm. A paratype collected on the same date at the same locality has a wing measuring 120 mm. Koelz (1939: 75) listed 11 paratypes. The two juveniles from Baghlan collected on 1 July were not cataloged at AMNH. The other nine paratypes are AMNH 465666–465670 and 465672–465675.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Hirundinidae
Genus	Hirundo