Callisitta azurea expectata Hartert

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 : 85

Callisitta azurea expectata Hartert

Callisitta azurea expectata Hartert, 1914: 34 (Bukit Fraser, above the Semangko Pass, Pahang, 4000 feet).

Now Sitta azurea expectata ( Hartert, 1914) . See Dickinson et al., 2006b: 292, Wells, 2007: 411– 412, and Harrap, 2008b: 144.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684135 , adult male, collected at Fraser’s Hill (5 Bukit Fraser), 03.43N, 101.45E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2631), above Semangko Pass, 4000 ft, Pahang, Malaysia, on 10 October 1909, by Herbert C. Robinson. From the Selangor Museum (no. 2390/09) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The holotype was designated in the original description, the above specimen being the only one collected on 10 October 1909. There are four paratypes from the Rothschild Collection in AMNH: AMNH 684132 , male, Mt. Ijau , 3000 ft, Perak, February 1898, collected by A.C. Butler ; AMNH 684133 , female, Telom, 3000 ft, Perak-Pahang boundary, 2 December 1908, collected by H.C. Robinson and C.B. Kloss, from the Selangor Museum (no. 2311/08) ; AMNH 684134 , male, Semangko Pass, Selangor-Pahang boundary, 2500–4500 ft, 22 February 1908, from the Selangor Museum (no. 333/08) ; AMNH 684136 , female, Mt. Mengkuang, 4800 ft, Lebah , Selangor, March 1907, collected by H.C. Robinson, from the Selangor Museum (2195/07) .