Anthus herbarum 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 : 52-53

Anthus herbarum Brehm

Anthus herbarum Brehm, 1831: 327 (lebt auf freien, mit

Gras bewachsenen trockenen Schlägen der Nadel­

wälder, nicht sehr hoch hinauf....).

Now Anthus trivialis trivialis (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1905a: 272, and Alström and Mild, 2003: 134.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 458063 , adult unsexed, collected on the Bergrücken des Thüringer Waldes , Germany, on 20 June 1820 ; and AMNH 458070 , juvenile male, AMNH 458071 , juvenile female, and AMNH 458072 , juvenile male, nestmates collected on 26 July 1825, at Renthendorf , Germany. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Like the two previous taxa, this one was omitted from Hartert’s lists of types in the Rothschild Collection but was included in the synonymy of Anthus trivialis trivialis in Hartert (1905a: 272). The above specimens have the original Brehm label marked ‘‘ Anthus herbarum Brm. ’’ in Brehm’s hand. Brehm (1831: 327) did not say how many specimens he had.

Brehm (1856b: 339) gave more exact locality data for his Anthus herbarum . It was said to occur ‘‘auf dem Rücken des Thüringer Waldes und den Waldblössen der hiesigen Gegend’’. AMNH 458063, listed above, from ‘‘Bergrücken des Thüringer Waldes’’, is the specimen bearing the Rothschild type label, but it was never designated the type by Hartert. The other three specimens would have also been in Brehm’s possession when he named A. herbarum . Seven additional specimens, AMNH 458064–458069 and 458073 from Görlitz and Renthendorf, all collected prior to the July 1831 date when Brehm signed the introduction to his 1831 book, were exchanged to ZFMK. They may also be syntypes if they are labeled herbarum by Brehm.