Anthus leucophrys captus Hartert

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 : 51

Anthus leucophrys captus Hartert

Anthus leucophrys captus Hartert, 1905a: 269 (Waadi

Zerka, Palästina).

Now Anthus similis captus Hartert, 1905 . See Alström and Mild, 2003: 202–204.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 571601 , adult ‘‘male’’, collected at Wadi Zerqa’ , Jordan, on 27 September (not November) 1897, by Bacher (no. 158), obtained from Schlüter. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave the date of collection of the type as 27 November 1897 and cited Bacher’s no. 158 in the original description but gave no indication of how many specimens he examined. He (1905a: 270) also thought that this specimen was perhaps a female. Later, Hartert (1919: 168) called attention to his incorrect citation of the date on the field label of the type.

AMNH 571602, second male specimen collected by Bacher at Wadi Zerqa’ on 28 September 1897, is a paratype. This specimen also bears the number 158, but was collected a day later. In the range of this taxon, Hartert (1905a: 270) also included birds from eastern Persia and Baluchistan, of which AMNH has 29 specimens that were part of the Rothschild Collection and were collected prior to the description, but it is not possible now to know which of these were in Hartert’s hand when he described captus. Some of these specimens also comprised part of Meinertzhagen’s type series of Anthus sordidus decaptus (see below).

The name ‘‘Jabok’’ given on the field label after the locality is the ancient name of the Wadi Zerqa’ ( Seltzer, 1962: 2141). The village of Zerqa’ (= Zarqa) is at 32°04′N, 36°05′E (Times Atlas).