Sitta advena Brehm

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 : 81

Sitta advena Brehm

Sitta advena Brehm, 1831: 207 (Zeight sich nur zuweilen in den Wäldern des mittleren Deutschlands).

Now Sitta europaea caesia Wolf, 1810 . See Hartert, 1918a: 26, and Harrap, 2008b: 127–128.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 456031 , female, collected at Renthendorf , 50.48N, 11.58E ( USBGN, 1959), Germany on 12 July 1815. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The specimen collected on 12 July 1815 at Renthendorf was designated the lectotype by Hartert (1918a: 26), who added that Brehm had described advena from ‘‘exceptionally pale, partially juvenile, specimens.’’ No other specimens from Renthendorf that came to AMNH were collected early enough to have been used by Brehm in his description of this form.