Chloris curvirostris C.L. Brehm

Chloris curvirostris C.L. Brehm, 1855: 95 (in Schweden und Deutschland).

Now Carduelis chloris chloris (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1903: 61; Hartert, 1918: 10; Howell et al., 1968: 235; Dickinson, 2003: 749; and Clement, 2010: 542–543.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456671, female, collected in Stockholm, 59.20N, 18.95E (Times atlas), Sweden, on 30 April 1849. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918: 10) listed the Brehm specimen collected in Stockholm on 30 April 1849 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of C. curvirostris . He also listed a pair and a nestling from Renthendorf as labeled curvirostris by Brehm. These three specimens were perhaps AMNH 456668, male, 20 June 1817, AMNH 456669, male, AMNH 456670, female, 4 September 1837, cataloged as curvirostris but exchanged to ZFMK. They may be paralectotypes of curvirostris . Hartert (1918: 10) listed W. Meves as the collector of this lectotype.

Hartert (1903: 61) restricted the type locality of Carduelis chloris to Sweden and listed C. curvirostris Brehm as a synonym, as have subsequent authors.