Lanius paradoxus A.E. 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 : 105

Lanius paradoxus A.E. Brehm

Lanius paradoxus A.E. Brehm, 1854: 75 (‘‘Nord­Ost­

Afrika’’).

Now Lanius senator niloticus (Bonaparte, 1853) . See

Hartert, 1907a: 436, Fry et al., 2000: 371, and Harris and Franklin, 2000: 181.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457455 , adult male, collected on the Blue Nile, on 12 January 1851, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918b: 29) designated the above specimen the lectotype; it does not bear an A.E. Brehm label. In C.L. Brehm’s hand, it is labeled Lanius paradoxus major , with data as given above, and is noted ‘‘species rarissima a nobis detecta, differt a cognatis radice caudae alba’’ (very rare species, discovered by us, differing in a recognizable white base of tail).

There is no exact type locality given in the description of this form, but A.E. Brehm (1854: 75) stated: ‘‘ L. rufus zerstreut sich durch ganz Nord­ Ost­Afrika’’, and in a footnote: ‘‘Mit letzterem [ L. rufus ] kann man leicht eine neue Art verwechseln, die wir L. paradoxus genannt haben.’’ The above lectotype and another undated specimen from Senegal, AMNH 457456, are the only two Brehm specimens of this taxon from north Africa possibly collected before 1854.