Parus Salicarius

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 : 69-70

Parus Salicarius stötzneri Kleinschmidt

Parus Salicarius stötzneri Kleinschmidt, 1921a: 20 (Jehol-Vögel, nordöstlich von P. S. affinis ).

Now Poecile montanus stoetzneri (Kleinschmidt, 1921) . See Eck and Quaisser, 2004: 290, Eck and Martens, 2006: 17–18, and Gosler and Clement: 2007: 712–713.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 682329, male, collected 30 km north of Balihandien, northeast of Ch’eng-te-shih (5 Jehol), 40.59N, 117.52E (Times Atlas), northeast Hopeh (5 Tschili, as on label), China, on 29 April 1916, by H. Weigold on the Stoetznersche Szetschwan Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Kleinschmidt (1921a: 20) did not designate a type and did not give an exact locality for his new form, listing it only among the Jehol specimens collected by Weigold and noting that P. S. affinis was replaced to the northeast by a form he named P. S. stötzneri . The locality given above is that on the label of AMNH 682329, marked ‘‘Cotypus von Parus Salicarius stötzneri,’’ apparently by Kleinschmidt. Later, Kleinschmidt and Weigold (1922: 14) enumerated their specimens, still not indicating a type. The type series comprised three males, three females, and one sex?, collected 29–30 April [1916], north of Balihandién. AMNH 682329 is annotated on the label as ‘‘sIII.’’

Eck (1976: 46) pictured MTD specimen no. C. 23845 and referred to it as the type of P. s. stötzneri . According to the Code (ICZN, 1999: 82, Art. 74.5), this does not fulfill the requirements for lectotype designation before 2000, as the term ‘‘lectotype’’ was not used and more than one specimen was known to have been in the type series. Eck and Quaisser (2004: 290) listed a holotype in MTD; however, a type was not designated in the original description of stötzneri . Eck and Martens (2006: 18, fn. 28), in what appears to be a similar case, concluded that the specimen listed as the holotype of P. weigoldicus by Eck and Quaisser (2004: 290, see below), in fact, did not qualify as such.

Only one specimen of this form came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It had undoubtedly been either sold or exchanged to Rothschild and is the ‘‘paratype’’ in New York, referred to by Eck and Quaisser (2004: 290). This specimen had not previously been included with the AMNH types.