Aegithalos caudatus pyrenaicus Hartert

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 : 60

Aegithalos caudatus pyrenaicus Hartert

Aegithalos caudatus pyrenaicus Hartert, 1919: 40 (Reine Hortense near Cauterets, 1,400 m.).

Now Aegithalos caudatus taiti Ingram, 1913 . See Snow, 1967a: 54, and Harrap, 2008a: 95–96.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 682912 , adult male, collected at Reine Hortense near Cauterets, 42.53N, 00.06W (Times Atlas), central Pyrenees, France, on 22 March 1907 by J. Mousquès. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Hartert (1918c: 429) described this subspecies, he omitted the name, only providing it later as A. c. pyrenaicus ( Hartert, 1919: 40). In the 1918 description, he (Hartert, 1918: 429) had provided the above information for the type and said that he had 27 specimens from the central Pyrenees, collected by Mousquès. There are, however, 27 such specimens in AMNH in addition to the type. In this series, two specimens bear data identical to that given for the type, and Hartert (1920a: 442) did not further distinguish between them. AMNH 682912 bears the Rothschild type label and the Rothschild Museum label has ‘‘Type’’ written by Hartert on the reverse. It was Hartert’s intent that this specimen be the type; and in order to remove the ambiguity, I hereby designate AMNH 682912 the lectotype of Aegithalos caudatus pyrenaicus . The 27 paralectotypes are: AMNH 682902– 682911, and 682913–682929.