Certhia familiaris harterti Hellmayr

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 : 95

Certhia familiaris harterti Hellmayr

Certhia familiaris harterti Hellmayr, 1901: 189 (Kleinasien) .

Now Certhia brachydactyla harterti Hellmayr, 1901 . See Vaurie, 1959: 543, Roselaar, 1995: 152–153, and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684770 , unsexed adult, collected at Alemdag ( Roselaar, 1995: 153, 5 Alum Dagh, Asia Minor, as on label), 41.03N, 29.14E (Times Atlas), Turkey, on 28 December 1868, by T. Robson. From the H.J. Elwes Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hellmayr said that the type, from Asia Minor, was from the Elwes Collection and in the Rothschild Collection, collected on 28.12.J.8 (the ‘‘J.’’ being an obvious misreading of the ‘‘6’’ in the date). The above specimen is the only one of harterti that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It bears a Rothschild type label and an Elwes Collection label, with the initials T.R., which Hartert (1920a: 439) identified as the collector, T. Robson.

Dickinson (2003: 648), with reference to Roselaar (1995: 152–153), and Harrap (2008c: 183) included harterti in C. b. brachydactyla ; but Roselaar, as well as Vaurie (1959: 543) recognized harterti.