Certhia himalayana cedricola 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 : 96

Certhia himalayana cedricola Koelz

Certhia himalayana cedricola Koelz, 1939: 65 (Jalalabad, Afghanistan).

Now Certhia himalayana himalayana Vigors, 1832 . See Vaurie, 1957b: 13–14, and Harrap, 2008c: 184–185.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466895 , adult female, collected at Jalalabad , 34.26N, 70.25E (Times Atlas), Afghanistan, on 18 December 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz designated as type a female specimen collected on 18 December 1937 at Jalalabad, with wing measuring 67 mm. The above specimen collected on that date has a wing measuring 67 mm and is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Koelz. He ( Koelz, 1939: 65) gave inclusive wing measurements for five male and five female specimens but listed only eight paratypes, by locality, all collected in 1937. The following paratypes came to AMNH: Jalalabad, AMNH 466894 , female, 18 December, wing measuring 66 mm and with no type annotations ; AMNH 466897 , male, 18 December ; Sirotai, AMNH 466899 , female, 18 June ; AMNH 466900 , female, 19 June ; AMNH 466901 , male, 17 June ; Farajghan Pass, AMNH 466902 , male, 6 June ; Kail, AMNH 466903 , male, 3 June. Two unsexed specimens, AMNH 466896 and AMNH 466898 , collected at Jalalabad on 19 December 1937, were not listed as paratypes by Koelz .