Certhia brachydactyla 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 : 94

Certhia brachydactyla Brehm

Certhia brachydactyla Brehm, 1820: 570 (Rodatal) .

Now Certhia brachydactyla brachydactyla Brehm, 1820 . See Hartert, 1918a: 26, and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457353 , adult male, collected at Renthendorf , 50.48N, 11.58E ( USBGN, 1959), Germany, on 29 December 1816. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 26) listed this specimen as the type of C. brachydactyla (effectively designating it the lectotype of brachydactyla ) and possibly also the type of C. megarhynchos (see below). Brehm (1820: 579–580) had many specimens of brachydactyla , but said that he had seen his new form for the first time at the end of December, four years previously, not far from the Roda River, where he had collected two specimens on the same day and a third a day later. That statement points to the above specimen as one of the first three collected. It is the only Brehm specimen of brachydactyla in AMNH that was collected before the 1820 publication of the name. Brehm did not write brachydactyla on the label.