Cinclus medius 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

Cinclus medius Brehm

Cinclus medius Brehm, 1831: 395–396 (an den Bächen des thüringer Waldes).

Now Cinclus cinclus aquaticus Bechstein, 1803 . See

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

Brewer and MacKay, 2001: 200.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457415 , [adult female], collected in the Thuringian forest , Germany, on 23 June 1827 by Bonde. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm (1856a: 186) noted that Herr Bonde collected for him on 23 June 1827 ‘‘eine Mutter mit ihrem jungen Männchen’’ and added in a footnote ‘‘Die Schwester des letztern, welche ich auch besitze, hatte er 5 Tage vorher... mit der Hand ergriffen.’’ On the original label, the adult was first labeled as a male, but changed by Brehm to female ‘‘alt aest’’ (adult summer) ‘‘mit ihn Kinder ———?’’. On the side of the same label are two male symbols and one female symbol, which I interpret as referring to the young. Hartert (1918b: 35) designated this adult specimen the lectotype, publishing it as an adult male in an apparent misreading of Brehm’s changed sex symbol.

AMNH 457421, male, and AMNH 457422, female, collected on 23 June 1827 in ‘‘Thüringer Wald’’, were cataloged as C. medius and, if they are juveniles, may be paralectotypes. They were exchanged to ZFMK. No other specimen of this taxon collected on 23 June 1827 in the Thuringian Forest was cataloged at AMNH.