Serinus orientalis

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COMMENTS: S. orientalis Brehm was not among the Brehm types listed by Hartert (1918) and was only discovered in the general collection at AMNH after enquiries by E. Dickinson in 2008. In the original description Brehm described male, female, and young. The above specimen bears the original Brehm label, marked ‘‘ Serinus flavescens orientalis, s juv. 8. August 1824 Wien. ’’ A juvenile female, collected on the same day in ‘‘ Wien’ ’ is labeled meridionalis by Brehm (see below). Because of the conflicting evidence, I have not considered it a syntype of either name. Other specimens labeled orientalis by Brehm were collected after the publication of the name. Kinzelbach et al. (2009) found that Serinus estherae orientalis Chasen was preoccupied by Serinus orientalis C. L. Brehm, 1831, and provided a replacement name for that of Chasen.