Pyrrhula minor C.L. Brehm

Pyrrhula minor C.L. Brehm, 1834: col. 253 (bei Greifswald erlegt).

Now Pyrrhula pyrrhula europoea Vieillot, 1816 . See Hartert, 1918: 11; Vaurie, 1956c: 5–15; Vaurie, 1959: 661; Howell et al., 1986: 297; Dickinson, 2003: 756–757; and Clement, 2010: 609–610.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 456757, adult male, Greifswald, 54.06N, 13.24E (Times atlas), Germany, on 16 February 1833, by E.F. von Homeyer. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm based his name on a specimen sent to him by von Homeyer, collected in February 1833. He described only the male and apparently had the single specimen.