Poecile montanus montanus ( Conrad, 1827 )

Cibois, Alice, Vallotton, Laurent, Othman, Nagwa, Weber, Claude & Ruedi, Manuel, 2016, Type specimens of birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Geneva, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (2), pp. 269-282 : 275-276

Parus atricapillus jouardi von Burg, 1924

1924 Der Weidmann, Bülach 17: 8 (description).

1925 in Jouard, Revue française d’Ornithologie, 9: 75 (material). Von Burg further described the taxon in 1925, Die Tierwelt, Zofingen, p. 180.

Now Poecile montanus montanus ( Conrad, 1827) .

See Vaurie, 1959: 479, and Dickinson & Christidis, 2014: 429.

Syntype: MHNG 935.078 , adult female, collected in Switzerland ( Montana , Valais) on 31 January 1924 by H. Jouard . The label of this specimen indicates that it was part of Stresemann’s collection (Zoolog. Museum Berlin, n° 25.1673 according to a MHNG document), suggesting that it is probably one individual given by Jouard to von Burg (“ J’en ai donné un couple à M. von Burg ” [I gave a pair to Mr. von Burg] Jouard, 1925: 75).

Comment: Jouard (1936) later designated two specimens as “ type ” ( MHNG 935.075 ) and “cotype” ( MHNG 935.076 ) but they do not belong to the type series, which comprises specimens collected during the winter 1923- 24, whereas the specimens designated by Jouard were collected in December 1924.