Sitta pygmaea elii Phillips

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 : 82

Sitta pygmaea elii Phillips

Sitta pygmaea elii Phillips, 1986 (Mesa de San Antonio, above San Antonio de las Alazanas, SE Coahuila).

Now Sitta pygmaea elii Phillips, 1986 . See Dickerman and Parkes, 1997: 224, and Harrap, 2008b: 131–132.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 831490 , adult male, collected on Mesa de San Antonio , above San Antonio de las Alazanas, 25.16N, 100.36W ( USBGN, 1956a), southeastern Coahuila, Mexico, on 20 February 1983, by Aldegundo Garza de León, prepared by Allan R. Phillips (no. 11394). From the Allan R. Phillips Collection.

COMMENTS: This holotype was deposited in AMNH in May 1996 from the estate of Allan R. Phillips. The date of collection was incorrectly cited as 1982 by Dickerman and Parkes (1997: 224). In the original description, the range of elii was given as southwestern Nuevo León (Cerro Potosí) and southeastern Coahuila, but no information was added as to the number of specimens in the type series ; there are no paratypes in AMNH .