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Types of Birds in the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm by Nils Gyldenstolpe 1926
The latest major revision of the types at NRM was made by Nils Gyldenstolpe in 1926 (a new is currently in preparation).In all his revision contains 283 types, the majority of which (104) have been described by Professor Carl Sundevall. But there are also two Linnean types, viz. Oriolus aureus and Loxia hordacea, as well as 25 of Sparrman´s types to his famous work "Museum Carlsonianum". Otherwise there are specimens described by Ljungh, von Paykull, Wahlberg, Nilsson, Victorin, Sjöstedt, Lönnberg, Zedlitz and Gyldenstolpe himself etc.
Link to Gyldenstolpe 1926 (Click on a name in the text to see pictures of the specimens)The full collection of types in NRM :(Since the type collection currently is under revision it is presented here in a partly unrevised form directly from the collection and several of the webb-pages are still in preparation)
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