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 : 70

Parus Salicarius weigoldi Kleinschmidt Parus weigoldicus Kleinschmidt

Parus Salicarius weigoldi Kleinschmidt, 1921a: 19 (gleichen Fundort (z.B. Atentze)).

Parus weigoldicus Kleinschmidt, 1921b: 1 .

Now Poecile montanus weigoldicus (Kleinschmidt, 1921) . See Kleinschmidt, 1921b: 1, Eck and Martens, 2006: 18–19, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 712–713.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 682328, unsexed adult, collected at Sungp’an, 32.36N, 103.36E (USBGN, 1968), upper Minho River, Sichuan, China, on 15 August 1914, by H. Weigold on the Stoetznersche Szetschwan Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Kleinschmidt listed only a single locality as an example of the localities at which this form was collected, but no type was designated. Later, Kleinschmidt and Weigold (1922: 15) listed all of the specimens by locality. The above syntype was there listed as ‘‘ 1 ad. ’’ from Sungp’an. On the reverse of the original label are the notations: ‘‘n dubl’’ and ‘‘ 1 ad. ’’ This implies that it was considered a duplicate specimen and was either sold or exchanged to Rothschild.

Shortly after weigoldi was described, Kleinschmidt (1921b: 1) realized that the name was preoccupied by Parus cristatus weigoldi Tratz, 1914 , and introduced the replacement name, P. weigoldicus , based on the same syntypes. Eck and Martens (2006: 18–19) treated weigoldicus as a full species.

Eck and Quaisser (2004: 290) listed a specimen from Atentze in SNSD as the holotype of this form; but later, Eck and Martens (2006: 18, fn. 28) concluded that the Dresden specimen did not qualify as a holotype, only a syntype. Other than the specimens in SNSD and the above specimen in AMNH, the whereabouts of other syntypes of weigoldicus have not been established .