Crucirostra erythroptera C.L. Brehm

Crucirostra erythroptera C.L. Brehm, 1853: 199 (Harz and Renthendorf) .

Now Loxia curvirostra curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918: 13, Vaurie; 1956b: 25–30; Vaurie, 1959: 648–652; Howell et al., 1968: 288– 293, Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 600–602.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 457006, ‘‘male biennis’’ [second-year male], caught in the Harz Mountains, Germany, in March 1848, died in captivity 10 August 1848 ; AMNH 457007, ‘‘male media aetate’’ [first-year male], caught in the Harz Mountains 1 April 1851, died in captivity 20 May 1851 ; AMNH 457011, male, died after three days, AMNH 457012, female, died after 10 days, pair captured in the Roda Valley on 25 April 1847 ; AMNH 457009, young male, collected 29 August 1819 and AMNH 457008, female, collected early in the year 1817, two specimens collected much earlier at Renthendorf. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: On page 201 of the original description, Brehm listed the six specimens of this form that he had, giving dates of their capture. Four of these survived in captivity for varying amounts of time. All six of these birds came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1918: 13) considered only two of these birds to be types of erythroptera, but this did not serve to designate a lectotype and all six must be considered syntypes.

Only AMNH 457006 and 457007, the two specimens with Rothschild type labels, remain in AMNH ; the other four syntypes were exchanged to ZFMK. AMNH 457010, cataloged at AMNH as erythroptera, unsexed, from Roda Valley, 10 April 1847, was also exchanged to ZFMK, but I have not considered it a syntype as this date was not mentioned by Brehm .

AMNH 457007 was numbered ‘‘No. 14’’ by Brehm and this corresponds to illustration no. 14 on the unnumbered plate opposite page 182 in the text of Brehm (1853).