Crucirostra assimilis C.L. Brehm

Crucirostra assimilis C.L. Brehm, 1853: 253 (Rhoda) .

Now Loxia leucoptera bifasciata (C.L. Brehm, 1827) . See Hartert, 1918: 13; Vaurie, 1959: 652– 653; Howell et al., 1968: 293; Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 604.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 457076, juvenile female, captured in the Roda Valley, Germany, on 12 July 1846, by Dr. Richter, and died in captivity on 4 September 1846. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm had the single specimen when he described assimilis; the reverse of Brehm’s label bears ‘‘Nr. 19,’’ the number of the figure in the unnumbered plate in Brehm (1853: opp. p. 182).