Cinclus rupestris Brehm

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 : 107-108

Cinclus rupestris Brehm

Cinclus rupestris Brehm, 1856a: 188 (aus der sächsisch­

en Schweiz, von der Göltsch, vom Thüringer Walde,

und aus Dalmatien).

Now Cinclus cinclus aquaticus Bechstein, 1803 . See

Hartert, 1918b: 35, Tyler and Ormerod, 1994: 10, and

Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 200.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 457428 , adult female, and AMNH 457429 , adult male, collected in Saxonian Switzerland, Germany, on 15 July 1834 ; AMNH 457424 , adult male, and AMNH 457426 , juvenile female, collected at Greiz , 50°40′N, 12°11′E, Germany ; and AMNH 457423 , juvenile male, collected in the Thuringer Wald , Germany. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: All seven of the specimens mentioned by Brehm (1856a: 188) in the original description came to AMNH. AMNH 457428, adult female, and AMNH 457429, adult male, attached specimens both collected at the same locality on 15 July 1834, were listed as types by Hartert (1918b: 35). They bear one Rothschild type label tied on the male, and in the years since Hartert’s (1918b) paper, have been considered ‘‘the types’’ of Brehm’s rupestris . This is an incorrect designation of a lectotype, however, and all of the specimens must be considered syntypes. All of the above specimens are labeled rupestris by Brehm. Two additional specimens, AMNH 457425 and 457427, were exchanged to ZFMK and are also syntypes if they are labeled rupestris by Brehm.

Saxonian Switzerland is defined by Seltzer (1962: 1713) as an area of sandstone cliffs astride the Elbe River, southeast of Dresden, extending for about 20 mi along the Czechoslovakian bor­ der.