Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica Witherby, 1905

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 : 96

Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica Witherby

Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica Witherby, 1905: 35 (Aïn Draham, Tunis).

Now Certhia brachydactyla mauritanica Witherby, 1905 . See Dickinson, 2003: 648, and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684720 , adult male, collected at Aïn Draham , 36.48N, 08.40E (Times Atlas), Tunisia, on 13 April 1903, by Paul Spatz (no. T. 313). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Witherby gave the unique field number of the holotype, said to be in the Rothschild Collection, but did not mention the name of the collector. The name of Paul Spatz as the collector is printed on the Rothschild Museum label of the type, and the field number T. 313 is given on the original field label which is attached. Witherby mentioned that co-types (5 paratypes) were in his collection.