Melanocorypha Gallica Brehm

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 15

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scientific name	Melanocorypha Gallica Brehm
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Melanocorypha Gallica Brehm, 1845 , col. 345 (die Länder des südlichen Frankreich, namentlich die Gegend von Montpellier).

Now Calandrella brachydactyla brachydactyla (Leisler, 1814) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1918b: 18, and Cramp, 1988: 123. LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457668, male, collected at Montpellier, 43°36′N, 03°53′E (Times Atlas), France, in April 1829. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen was designat ed the lectotype by Hartert (1918b: 18). A second specimen, AMNH 457669, female, collected 20 June 1833 in ‘‘Südfrankreich’’, is a paralectotype.

References

Brehm, C. L. 1845. Etwas uber die Vogel Griechenlands und Australiens. Isis von Oken 38: cols. 323 - 358.

Cramp, S. (chief editor). 1988. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, vol. 5. Tyrant flycatchers to thrushes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1063 pp.

Hartert, E. 1918 b. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. A. Types in the Brehm Collection. Novitates Zoologicae 25: 4 - 63.