Sitta frontalis palawana Hartert, 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 : 84

Sitta frontalis palawana Hartert

Sitta frontalis palawana Hartert, 1905e: 11 (Puerto Princesa, Palawan).

Now Sitta frontalis palawana Hartert, 1905 . See Dickinson et al., 2006b: 293, and Harrap, 2008b: 142–143.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684105 , adult male, collected at Puerto Princesa, 09.44N, 118.44E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 424), Palawan Island , Philippines, in January 1898, by William Doherty (no. 1198). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Doherty’s field number of the holotype in the original description and said that the form occurred on Palawan and Balabac islands. Paratypes in AMNH are: Doherty specimens collected on Palawan in 1897 and 1898, AMNH 684104 , AMNH 684106–684109 ; and J. Whitehead specimens collected on Palawan in 1887, AMNH 684111–684115 . A probable paratype is AMNH 684110 , collected by Platen on Palawan in 1887, but I do not know whether it was in Rothschild’s possession when palawana was named. There are no Balabac specimens in AMNH .