Parus caeruleus cyrenaicae Hartert, 1922

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 : 78-79

Parus caeruleus cyrenaicae Hartert

Parus caeruleus cyrenaicae Hartert, 1922b: 140 (juniper woods near Merg).

Now Cyanistes teneriffae cyrenaicae (Hartert, 1922) . See Gosler and Clement, 2007: 747–748,

Kirwan, 2008, and Päckert and Martens, 2008: 830–831.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 681166 , adult male, collected in juniper woods near Al Marj (5 Merg), 32.30N, 20.50E (Times Atlas), eastern Libya (5 Cyrenaica), on 4 May 1922, by Ernst Hartert and Carl Hilgert. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type an adult male collected near Merg on 4 May 1922; the above specimen is the only adult male collected on that date. Later, in his report on the entire collection, he ( Hartert, 1923: 15) gave measurements for three adult males and four adult females, also mentioning young birds collected. The seven adults and three young birds came to AMNH ; the nine paratypes are: AMNH 681167–681175 . All were collected at the type locality 4–11 May 1922. See Hartert (1923) for a description of the entire expedition .