Certhia brachydactyla ultramontana Hartert

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 96

Certhia brachydactyla ultramontana Hartert

Certhia brachydactyla ultramontana Hartert, 1905d: 324 (Panzano bei Chianti, Italien).

Now Certhia brachydactyla brachydactyla Brehm, 1820 . See Vaurie, 1959: 542, Dickinson, 2003: 648, and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684740 , adult male, collected at Panzano , 43.27N, 11.19E ( USBGN, 1956c), near Chianti , Italy, on 3 October 1902, from the Squilloni Collection (no. 656). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert, in the original description, gave the Squilloni number of the holotype and later ( Hartert, 1920a: 439) added that the specimen was from the Squilloni Collection. Hartert (1905d: 324) said that he studied over 30 specimens from Italy, Spain, southern Dalmatia, and Greece. The following specimens in AMNH are considered paratypes: Spain (collected by A.E. Brehm in 1856–1857), AMNH 457385– 457388; Italy (mostly from Squilloni), AMNH 684725–684731, 684734–684739; Castelnovo (?), S. Dalmatia, Croatia, AMNH 684749.

Rothschild purchased the Brehm specimens in 1897 ( Hartert, 1901b: 39), making them available to Hartert when this form was described.