Parus niger lacuum Neumann

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 : 72

Parus niger lacuum Neumann

Parus niger lacuum Neumann, 1905: 77 (Suksuki- Fluss am Zuaï-See).

Now Parus leucomelas leucomelas Rüppell, 1840 . See Snow, 1967c: 101, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 731–732.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 682565 , adult female, collected on the Suksuki River , Lake Zwai , 08.00N, 38.50E (Times Atlas), Ethiopia, on 27 November 1900, by Oscar Neumann (no. 294). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann gave the locality and date of his type in the original description. New taxa that were to appear in his interrupted article in the Journal für Ornithologie, the last part of which had not yet been published, are described in his May 1905 article. It is confusing that in the final article ( Neumann, 1906a), which had apparently already been set in type, no mention is made of the fact that the new forms had already been published. This led Hartert (1920a: 444) to give an incorrect date of publication for Parus niger lacuum . In the final article, Neumann (1906a: 260) listed his type series of five specimens with his field numbers for each, the Suksuki River specimen being the only one from that locality. The four paratypes are: AMNH 682561 (Neumann no. 353), male, Abassi See, 5 December 1900; AMNH 682562 (1036), male, Godjeb Thal, Kaffa-Djimma, 25 March 1901; AMNH 682563 (912), male, Alesa, Koscha, 23 February 1901 (published as 12 February by Neumann); AMNH 682564 (328), male, Ora Schale, 1 December 1900 (incorrectly noted on the Rothschild label as November).