Parus montanus kleinschmidti Hellmayr

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

[ Parus montanus kleinschmidti Hellmayr ]

Hellmayr’s (1900: 212) Parus montanus kleinschmidti was based on two specimens in the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920a: 443) listed as type a female, collected at Coalfall Wood, Finchley, near London, on 22 September 1897, by W. Burton; and the Rothschild type label was tied on AMNH 450916. However, because a second specimen, AMNH 682181, bears exactly the same data, Hartert’s listing did not distinguish between them and is thus not a valid designation of a lectotype. AMNH 450916 was among the United Kingdom types from the Rothschild Collection that were presented to BMNH in September 1936, now BMNH Reg. no. 1936.10.15.7. Certainly, this was the specimen that was intended as the type by Hartert, and was thought to be the type at AMNH; Warren and Harrison (1971: 285) considered it the holotype, and their wording satisfies Article 74.6 of the Code (ICZN, 1999: 83) concerning the fixation of a lectotype by inference. The second specimen, AMNH 682181, female, collected at Coalfall Wood, Finchley, near London, on 22 September 1897, by W. Burton, is the paralectotype.