Cinclus septentrionalis 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 : 106

Cinclus septentrionalis Brehm

Cinclus septentrionalis Brehm, 1823: 287 (Waldbäche Norwegens... und... thüringer Walde... im Winter).

Now Cinclus cinclus cinclus (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1918b: 35, Tyler and Ormerod, 1994: 10, and Brewer and MacKay, 2001:200.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457445 , adult male, collected in Scandinavia. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm (1823: 288) did not say how many Norwegian specimens he had, but he described both male and female and noted that he had three specimens collected in the Thüringian Forest in winter. Later, Brehm (1856a: 189) wrote that septentrionalis is confined to the Scandinavian peninsula and does not come from Germany, as he earlier thought. The above specimen, designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918b: 35), is the only Brehm specimen of this taxon in AMNH with a date prior to the publication of the name.