Parus major meinertzhageni Koelz

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 : 77

Parus major meinertzhageni Koelz

Parus major meinertzhageni Koelz, 1939: 62 (Balkh, Afghanistan).

Now Parus bokharensis bokharensis Lichtenstein, 1823 . See Vaurie, 1959: 516, Eck and Martens, 2006: 31–36, Gosler and Clement, 2007: 741, and Päckert and Martens, 2008: 829.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466804 , adult male, collected at Wazirabad (5 Balkh), 36.46N, 66.50E (Times Atlas), Afghan Turkestan , on 28 November 1937, by Walter Koelz (no. 256).

COMMENTS: Koelz designated as type a male collected at Balkh on 28 November 1937 and listed 15 paratypes (14 from Balkh, and one from Tashkurghan). However, he listed a total of 15 specimens, including the type, when he gave measurements. A total of 15 specimens came to AMNH ; the 14 paratypes are: Balkh, females, AMNH 466795 , 466805–466808 ; males, AMNH 466796– 4 6 6 8 0 3 ; Tashkurghan , female, AMNH 466809 .

Gosler and Clement (2007: 741) followed Harrap and Quinn (1996: 367–371) in treating P. bokharensis as a species separate from polyphyletic P. major . Eck and Martens (2006: 31–36) included bokharensis in a narrow species, P. major , from which the species P. minor and P. cinereus had been excluded; Päckert and Martens (2008: 829) commented on these differing interpretations.