Parus pallidus 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 : 73

Parus pallidus Brehm

Parus pallidus Brehm, 1856d: 367 (Greiz) .

Now Parus major major Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918a: 27, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455804 , female, collected at Greiz , 50.40N, 12.11E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 24 October 1834, by (Carl F.) Oberländer (according to Hartert). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Brehm wrote on the label of this specimen: ‘‘ Parus paradoxus , nova a novis detecta species’’ and on the reverse ‘‘avis rarissima.’’ Hartert (1918a: 27) listed this specimen as the type of P. pallidus , thereby designating it the lectotype, and added the following remarks:

Description of a pale specimen, which the author formerly mistook for bokharensis . …This is a remarkably pale variety; the back is ashy grey, with a hardly perceptible faint greenish hue, the underside almost white. It thus looks indeed very much like a P. major bokharensis , but is, of course, an aberrant P. major major . The type of P. intercedens is also a pale example, but similarly pale and even paler specimens are found occasionally elsewhere in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and in England and Morocco.

As noted above under the entry for Parus intercedens , three Brehm specimens from Greiz came to AMNH. The third specimen was exchanged to ZFMK, and depending on how the specimen was labeled by Brehm, it might be either a paralectotype of pallidus or intercedens .