Sitta neumayer plumbea Koelz, 1950

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 : 83

Sitta neumayer plumbea Koelz

Sitta neumayer plumbea Koelz, 1950: 9 (Guragan, near Masghun, Kuh i Jamal Range, southwest of Bam, Kirman, southeastern Iran).

Now Sitta neumayer plumbea Koelz, 1950 . See Vaurie, 1950b: 26, Harrap, 2008b: 141.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 803073 , adult male, collected at Guragan , near Masghun , Kuh i Jamal Range , southwest of Bam, 29.07N, 58.20E (Times Atlas), Kermān (5 Kirman), southeastern Iran, on 10 February 1940, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: The data given in the original description for the type were unique to the above specimen, and it was said to be in AMNH. However, it was originally sent to FMNH and cataloged there as FMNH 246505 ; later, it was returned to AMNH as the intended place of deposit. Two of the three paratypes are in AMNH: AMNH 464342 , female, Guragan, 10 February 1940, and AMNH 464343 , male, Guragan, 9 February 1940. The third paratype is in FMNH .