Parus major terraesanctae Hartert, 1910

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 : 74

Parus major terraesanctae Hartert

Parus major terraesanctae Hartert, 1910a : xxxii (Jerusalem).

Now Parus major terraesanctae Hartert, 1910 . See Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680455 , adult male, collected at Jerusalem, 31.47N, 35.13E (Times Atlas), Israel / Jordan, on 2 February 1899, by? Bacher (no. 179). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert listed as his type a male from Jerusalem, collected on 2 February 1899, with collector’s number as ‘‘177’’; however, later he ( Hartert, 1920a: 443) corrected this number to ‘‘179’’ and listed ‘‘ Bacher (?)’’ as the collector. Bacher’s name does not appear on the label. Three Bacher (?) specimens collected at Jerusalem came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; the holotype was the only male collected on 2 February. The other two specimens are paratypes: AMNH 680456 , male, 13 February 1899, and AMNH 680457 , female collected on 2 February 1899, both collected at Jerusalem and also numbered 179. Although Hartert did not say how many specimens he examined, he gave the range as ‘‘Palästina.’’ A third paratype from the Rothschild Collection is AMNH 680465 collected in Palestine in the summer of 1894. All other specimens of this form that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection were collected after the publication of the name .