Anthus aquaticus major 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 : 55

Anthus aquaticus major Brehm

Anthus aquaticus major Brehm, 1856b: 341 (selten in den hiesigen Thälern).

Now Anthus spinoletta spinoletta (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918b: 25, Knox, 1988, and Alström and Mild, 2003: 151.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 458097 , adult male, collected in the Roda River valley (Rodathal), Germany, on 25 January 1839. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1905a: 280) listed Anthus major Brehm, 1855: 280 as a nomen nudum. He later ( Hartert, 1918b: 25) listed the above valid description and designated the lectotype. The original label has Anthus aquaticus major in Brehm’s hand, and the specimen bears the Rothschild Museum and type labels, written by Hartert.

The above specimen is cataloged in error at AMNH as the type of ‘‘ Anthus montana ’’. Hartert (1918b) did not list ‘‘ Anthus montana ’’ Brehm in his list of the Brehm types nor did he include it in any of the synonymies in Hartert (1905a). I also have not found this name, and the status of ‘‘ Anthus montana ’’ remains unresolved. Cataloged as ‘‘ montana ’’, in addition to the lectotype of major are: AMNH 458098, Renthendorf, Germany, 16 April 1845, and AMNH 458099, Zella, St. Blasi, Germany, 7 October 1820, both exchanged to ZFMK. They are possible paralectotypes of A. a. major , if they were so labeled by Brehm.