Anthus campestris griseus Nicoll, 1920

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 : 49

Anthus campestris griseus Nicoll

Anthus campestris griseus Nicoll, 1920: 25 (Tischan, Turkestan) .

Now Anthus campestris (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Alström and Mild, 2003: 193–194.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 571709 , adult male, collected at Tishkan, Russian Turkestan, on 11 May 1900 (Russian calendar), by Nikolai A. Zarudny. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Nicoll (1920: 25) stated that he had 22 specimens of this form from Egypt, Turkestan, and Persia and that the type with the above data was in the Rothschild Collection. Six Zarudny specimens from Tishkan came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Nicoll (1920: 25) gave the date of the type as 11– 22 May 1900. This is apparently an attempt to give the New Style date as well as the Old Style date used by Zarudny. It does not serve as inclusive dates of male specimens because the two additional male specimens in AMNH collected by Zarudny in Tishkan were obtained on 30 April 1899 and 25 May 1900. The five paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 571710, male, 25 May 1900; AMNH 571711, male, 30 April 1899; AMNH 571712, female, 3 May 1900; AMNH 571713, female, 28 May 1900; and AMNH 571714, female, 9 May 1899 (all dates Old Style, as they appear on Zarudny’s labels).