Garrulus cervicalis Bonaparte, 1853 : 828

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 11

Garrulus cervicalis Bonaparte, 1853: 828 [as separate: 6]

TL: Algérie [ Algeria].

Now Garrulus glandarius cervicalis Bonaparte, 1853 . See Hartert 1903: 34, Blake & Vaurie 1962: 230, Madge & Burn 1999: 96, Dickinson 2003: 508.

ARGUABLE SYNTYPES: ZMB 1422. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Algier, Algeria. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Klocke. [Ex, A / R, Meise MS]. ZMB 1423. [No sex or age given]. Loc.: Algier, Algeria. Date: [not given]. Coll.: Klocke. [Mount, A /R, Meise MS].

COMMENTS: Except for having been so labelled by museum staff in the early 20 th century, there is nothing else to indicate the type status of these specimens, nor does the original description refer to specimens at ZMB. Bonaparte may have studied these specimens during his intensive work at the ZMB, but no evidence is given on original labels or in publications. Elisabeth (c. 1825–1857) and Oskar Klocke (1835–1857) ran the short-lived natural history sales rooms in Dresden, which were taken over by the well known Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss (1833–1890) after the early deaths of the siblings Klocke ( Horn et al. 1990: 205–206, 345). The actual field collector of the specimens is unknown.