Sitta saxatilis Schinz

Sitta saxatilis Schinz, 1840: 286 .

Now. Sitta neumayer syriaca Temminck, 1835 . See Hartert (1905: 338).

Type series. Same as for Sitta syriaca Temminck.

Type locality. Same as for Sitta syriaca Temminck.

Remarks. Schinz (1840) created Sitta saxatilis as a new replacement name for Sitta syriaca Temminck, which he considered inappropriate. Sitta saxatilis Schinz, 1840 is thus a junior objective synonym of Sitta syriaca Temminck, 1835 (Mlíkovský 2007) .