Poecile communis hellmayri Bianchi

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 : 66-67

Poecile communis hellmayri Bianchi

Poecile communis hellmayri Bianchi, 1902: 236 (Umbegung von Peking).

Now Poecile palustris hellmayri Bianchi, 1902 . See Kleinschmidt, 1897: 77, Hartert, 1920a: 443, Snow, 1967c: 75, Eck and Martens, 2006: 10–12, Dickinson et al., 2006: 71, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 711–712.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 682148 , immature male, collected at Beijing (5 Peking), 39.55N, 116.25E ( Times Atlas ), China, in May 1885. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Bianchi’s subspecies Poecile communis hellmayri was based on the single specimen that Kleinschmidt (1897: 77) referred to as Parus spec. nov. from Peking, collected in May 1885, and housed in the Rothschild Collection. Kleinschmidt did not give the sex of his specimen, but the above specimen is certainly the specimen he had in hand, as a separate label is attached bearing his comments and signed with his characteristic initials. Hartert (1905d: 375) confirmed this when he referred to Bianchi’s type as a male. Bianchi described the form in the genus Poecile , as was correctly given by Snow (1967c: 75). Hartert (1905d: 375, 1920a: 443) listed the description as ‘‘ Parus palustris hellmayri ’’ and labeled the type ‘‘ Parus hellmayri Bianchi. ’’ An AMNH type label has been added giving the correct information. A second immature specimen, labeled female, and also collected in Peking in May 1885, has no type standing.