Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824 Author Mlíkovský, Jiří Author Frahnert, Sylke text Zootaxa 2011 2990 1 29 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.278408 7a094bd8-4285-408f-ad78-89681bc13477 1175-5326 278408 Pyrrhocorax alpinus var. digitata Hemprich & Ehrenberg Pyrrhocorax alpinus varietas digitata Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833 : 50 . Now. Pyrrhocorax graculus digitatus ( Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833 ) . See Hartert (1903: 37), Steinheimer (2009: 24) . Type series. Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 50) clearly stated that they had only a single individual (“Unicum specimen habuimus.”), thus excluding all other specimens from the type series ( ICZN 1999, Art. 72.4.1 ). Lichtenstein (1825, Nr. 47–48) listed two specimens of these choughs from “ Syria ”, but he probably sold one of them before Ehrenberg restudied this bird (cf. Stresemann 1954 ; only one specimen was registered in the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB ). Probably forgetting that they collected two specimens, Ehrenberg (in Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1833 : 50) referred to a single specimen, apparently that which he examined in the ZMB (Hemprich was already dead at that time). This specimen is thus the holotype . Steinheimer (2009: 24) incorrectly said that Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 50) “referred to two specimens” and listed specimen ZMB 1575 as a syntype . Holotype : ZMB 1575, skin, unsexed, collected on an unknown date [= 5–24 July 1824 ] at “Bischerra” (label) [= Bcharré, Lebanon ]. Type locality. Type locality of Pyrrhocorax graculus var. digitata was usually given as “ Syria ” (e.g. Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1833 : 50, Hartert 1903: 37, Vaurie 1954 : 6). Vaurie (1959b : 163; see also C. Vaurie in Blake & Vaurie 1962 : 260) restricted the type locality to “ Lebanon ”, respecting data in Stresemann (1954) . Label data indicate that the holotype was collected at Bcharré. We thus restrict here the type locality to Bcharré, Lebanon , where the holotype was collected during 5–24 July 1824 .