Cinclus rufiventris Tristram

Cinclus cinclus var. rufiventris Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833: 54 [Nomen nudum; no description or indication.] Cinclus rufiventris Tristram, 1884: 51 .

Now. Cinclus cinclus rufiventris Tristram, 1884 . See Vaurie (1951b, 1959b: 196) and Dickinson (2003: 698).

Type series. Tristram (1884: 51) did not define the type series, but specifically referred to bird(s) labeled by Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833) as rufiventris, and to a bird listed by Sharpe (1881: 314) as a variant of cashmeriensis. Hemprich and Ehrenberg collected only one rufiventris (Lichtenstein 1825, Nr. 28). The type series thus consists of two specimens listed below.

Syntype. ZMB 3321, skin, collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg on an unknown date [= 5–24 July 1824] at “Bischerre” (Lichtenstein 1825, Nr. 28) [= Bcharré, Lebanon],

Syntype. BMNH 1864.11.22.129, ad. 3, collected by Tristram on “Nahr el Kelb” (Sharpe 1881: 314; R. Prÿs- Jones in litt. 2009) [= Nahr el Kalb, Lebanon; river opening at 33.96°N, 35.60°E], possibly during 19–20 June 1864 (cf. Tristram 1865: 633–635).

Type locality. Tristram (1884: 51) reported that C. rufiventris is confined to “the mountain streams in the deep gorges of the Litany river [= Nahr el Lîtâni, Lebanon; opening at 33.33°N, 35.24°E] and the Lebanon [= Jabal Lubnān, Lebanon]”, specifying that they were common on the “springs of Afka” [= Afqa, Lebanon; 34.07°N, 35.89°E], which he visited on 18 June 1864 (Tristram 1865: 633). Nevertheless, the type locality is defined by collecting localities of syntypes (ICZN 1999, Art. 76.1). We thus restrict here the type locality to Bcharré, Lebanon (Hemprich and Ehrenberg specimen) and Nahr el Kalb, Lebanon (Tristram specimen).

Remarks. Tristram (1884: 51) described the subspecies explicitly using the name rufiventris created by Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 54). The name is a pure nomen nudum in the latter paper, so Tristram (1884: 51) is its author in the sense of the Code (ICZN 1999, Art. 51.1).