Sitta europaea britannica Hartert, 1900

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 : 80

[ Sitta europaea britannica Hartert ]

The holotype of S. e. britannica, formerly AMNH 450909, was among United Kingdom types from the Rothschild Collection presented to BMNH in September 1936. Warren and Harrison (1971: 76) listed this specimen, which is now BMNH Reg. no. 1936.10.15.6. Hartert (1900c: 526) did not indicate the size of his type series, but the following specimens in AMNH were collected in Tring Park before the December 1900 publication date of the name and are paratypes: AMNH 683710, and 683715– 683723. Other specimens were collected early enough, but there is no information on when they came into Rothschild’s possession.