Fringilla bella C. L. Brehm

Mlíkovský, Jiří & Frahnert, Sylke, 2011, Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824, Zootaxa 2990, pp. 1-29 : 19

Fringilla bella C. L. Brehm

Fringilla bella Hemprich, 1824 [Unpublished label name.]

Fringilla bella “Hemprich Lichtenstein, 1825 [Unpublished manuscript name.] Fringilla bella “Hemprich C. L. Brehm, 1845 : col. 348.

Now. Carduelis cannabina bella ( C. L. Brehm, 1845) . See Hartert (1903: 75).

Type series. C. L. Brehm (1845) based this name on specimens in “Mus. Berol.” [= ZMB], there identified as Fringilla bella . Lichtenstein (1825, Nr. 450–491) listed 42 such specimens, which constitute the type series. Six of these syntypes were registered in the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB, but only four of them were found in ZMB in 2010. The remaining 36 specimens were probably sold by Lichtenstein to other collections, but we were not able to locate them. They were not found in the Brehm Collection in the AMNH (M. LeCroy, in litt. 2010).

Syntype. ZMB 6599: skin, 3, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “ Syrien ” (label) or “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) [= Beirut, Lebanon].

Syntype. ZMB 6600, skin, 3, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “ Syrien // V.–VI. 1824 ” (label) or “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) [= Beirut, Lebanon].

Syntype. ZMB 6601, mount, unsexed, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) = [Beirut, Lebanon].

Syntype. ZMB 6602: skin, Ƥ, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “ Syrien ” (label) or “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) [= Beirut, Lebanon].

Syntype (lost): ZMB 6598: Ƥ, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) [= Beirut, Lebanon].

Syntype (lost): ZMB 6603: Ƥ, collected on an unknown date [= 18 May–9 June 1824] in “Bairut” ( Lichtenstein 1825) [= Beirut, Lebanon].

Type locality. C. L. Brehm (1845: col. 348) believed that Hemprich named F. bella from “ Ägypten oder Nubia ”, which is an apparent error. Cabanis (1850: 161) stated that this form inhabits “ Syrien ” without explanation. The type locality was corrected to “Beirut”, Lebanon by Vaurie (1959b: 616), probably following data presented by Stresemann (1954). Stresemann (1962: 386) indicated that the type series was collected at “Bairut, May, Junio”, following Lichtenstein (1825), which supports Vaurie’s (1959b) decision. The type locality of Fringilla bella C. L. Brehm is thus Beirut, Lebanon, where type specimens were obtained during 18 May–9 June 1824.

Remarks. C. L. Brehm (1845: col. 348) published Fringilla bella in the synonymy of Linota cannabina Bp. = Carduelis cannabina (Linnaeus, 1758) . Cabanis (1850: 161, footnote) recognized it as a valid species and made it available thereby with C. L. Brehm (1845) as its author ( ICZN 1999, Art. 11.6.1 and Art. 50.7.).