Loxia curvirostra, Linnaeus, 1758

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 77

Curvirostra (sic) macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm

Curvirostra (sic) macrorhynchos C.L. Brehm, 1853: 192 (Auch er bewohnt unsere Nadelwälder und geht bis Moskau).

Now Loxia curvirostra curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918: 12; Vaurie, 1956b: 25–30; Vaurie, 1959: 648–652; Howell et al., 1958: 288– 293; Dickinson, 2003: 756; and Clement, 2010: 600–602.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457055, male, media aetate (Latin, ‘‘of middle age’’), collected in the Roda Valley (5 Rodathal), Germany, on 10 May 1845. From the C.L. Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm, in the original description, said: ‘‘Ich erhielt ihn im November 1819, im Februar 1830, im Junius 1844, im Mai 1845, etc.’’ Hartert (1918: 12) listed this specimen collected on the 10 May 1845 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. He also noted that it was the only Brehm specimen in the Rothschild Collection that had the name macrorhynchos written on it by Brehm and that it agreed ‘‘excellently with the description.’’ Brehm did describe this form in the genus Curvirostra , although this specimen is labeled Crucirostra , as were all the other forms described at this time. On the Rothschild type label, the date of collection is incorrectly given as ‘‘1834’’; 1845 is the correct date.

‘‘Nr. 10’’ on the reverse of Brehm’s label refers to the figure in the unnumbered plate in Brehm (1853: opp. p. 182). In the text, this is referred to as ‘‘Nr. 8,’’ but ‘‘no. 8’’ appears also for Crucirostra media on page 191. No. 10 is the only number missing and is undoubtedly the correct number for this form.