Sitta septentrionalis Brehm

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 : 80

Sitta septentrionalis Brehm

Sitta septentrionalis Brehm, 1831: 206 (bewohnt den Norden, kommt im Winter bei Kiel vor).

Now Sitta europaea caesia Wolf, 1810 . See Hartert, 1905d: 331, and Harrap, 2008b: 127– 128.

? SYNTYPE: AMNH 456012, adult male, collected at Kiel, 54.20N, 10.08E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 20 October 1824. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a) did not list this Brehm type. It bears a Rothschild type label, but the name and reference are filled in by a hand other than Hartert’s. It bears a second red label marked ‘‘wohl Typus’’ with the name and reference and signed by Keinschmidt. Kleinschmidt (1928: 2) noted that Brehm (1831: 205–207) had recognized four forms of Sitta (pinetorum, foliorum, septentrionalis , and advena ) and that later Brehm (1855: 74) had added coerulescens and united septentrionalis with pinetorum. This would account for the fact that Brehm first labeled the above Kiel specimen septentrionalis and later marked through that name and added pinetorum instead, as noted by Kleinschmidt (1928: 2, fn. 2). AMNH 456012 is the only Brehm specimen of caesia from Kiel that came to AMNH.