Crucirostra orientalis

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COMMENTS: Brehm apparently had two specimens when he described this form. The male was captured near Vienna and purchased in the Vienna bird market on 15 November 1826 by Count Gourcy-Droitaumont, who sent it to Brehm when it died. This specimen was listed as the type of orientalis by Hartert (1918: 13), thereby designating it the lectotype. Brehm mistakenly thought this form lived in the Himalayas, and it is so noted on the reverse of Brehm’s label along with the number 18. This refers to figure 18 in Brehm (1853: 251 and unnumbered plate opp. p. 182), an illustration of this specimen. A second specimen, a female, was captured in the Thüringer Forest, Germany, in August [1826] and acquired by Förster Bonde, from whom Brehm obtained it. It was cataloged at AMNH as AMNH 457072 and exchanged to ZFMK. It is the paralectotype.