Sitta caesia minor A.E. 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 : 81

Sitta caesia minor A.E. Brehm Sitta europaea hispaniensis Witherby

Sitta caesia minor A.E. Brehm, 1857: 447 (Pardo) .

Now Sitta europaea hispaniensis Witherby, 1913 . See Hartert, 1918a: 27, Dickinson, 2003: 644, and Harrap, 2008: 127–128.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683619 , adult female, collected at El Pardo (5 Pardo), 40.31N, 03.47W (Times Atlas), Spain, on 14 February 1857, by A.E. Brehm (no. 223). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, A.E. Brehm noted that he had a single specimen collected at Pardo and that he had heard the male. A.E. Brehm’s name proved to be preoccupied by Sitta minor Bechstein, 1793 , a synonym of Sitta pusilla Latham, 1790 ; Witherby (1913: 78) provided a replacement name. The two names share the same type.

Greenway (1967a: 130) synonymized hispaniensis with S. e. levantina and failed to note that the description of minor was by A.E. Brehm.