Cinclus pallasii kargasiensis Koelz

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 : 108

Cinclus pallasii kargasiensis Koelz

Cinclus pallasii kargasiensis Koelz, 1939: 65 (Kargasi

Pass, Afghanistan).

Now Cinclus pallasii tenuirostris Bonaparte, 1850 . See

Vaurie, 1951a: 15, Tyler and Ormerod, 1994: 10, and

Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 202.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 465857 , adult male, collected at Kargasi Pass , Afghanistan, on 8 August 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: The holotype, labeled ‘‘ kargasiensis type’’ by Koelz, is the only specimen so labeled and the only male in Koelz’s type series collected at Kargasi Pass on 8 August 1937. The nine paratypes listed by Koelz are AMNH 465858–465865 and 801210.

Koelz had 10 specimens, including the holotype, for which he gave wing measurements. In designating the holotype, a wing measurement of 106 mm was given, but none of the measurements given subsequently were that large. I measured the wing of the holotype as 103 mm and this corresponds to a male listed by Koelz with wing of ‘‘103 worn’’. The holotype has the outer three primaries present in each wing but very worn, and primaries four, five, six, and seven are in various stages of regrowth. My wing measurements of the paratypes correspond closely to those given by Koelz.

AMNH 801210, from the Upper Tale Valley, Baltistan, collected on 24 August 1936, was originally deposited in FMNH (no. 237579) and was received by AMNH on exchange.

While Koelz’s label has only ‘‘Kargasi Pass’’, the Koelz intinerary, kindly provided me by J. Hinshaw, has Koelz at Jurm, 36°50′N, 70°52′E (Times Atlas), Kargasi Pass, on 8 August 1937.