Aegithalus musculus Hartlaub, 1882

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 : 63

Aegithalus musculus Hartlaub

Aegithalus musculus Hartlaub, 1882: 91 (Lado) .

Now Anthoscopus musculus ( Hartlaub, 1882) . See Fry et al., 2000: 111–112, and Madge, 2008: 72.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 683351 , female, collected at Ladò , Sudan, on 8 March 1881, by Emin Pasha (5 Emin Bey). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartlaub did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined. Two specimens collected by Emin at Ladò came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 683351 is marked ‘‘Type’’ on the field label and bears a Rothschild type label. Hartert (1920a: 441) listed the specimen collected on 8 March 1881 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The second specimen, also a female and collected on 9 March 1881 by Emin, is labeled ‘‘Cotypus’ ’; but with the designation of the lectotype, this specimen, AMNH 683352 became a paralectotype .

Chapin (1954: 685) gave the coordinates for the Lado Enclave as 02.10N to 05.30N, 30.00E to 32.07E, and it is uncertain exactly where Emin Pasha was within this enclave.