Certhia familiaris tianschanica Hartert, 1905

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 : 93

Certhia familiaris tianschanica Hartert

Certhia familiaris tianschanica Hartert, 1905d: 321 (Ak-Su (? Fluss) südl.Tian-Schan).

Now Certhia familiaris tianschanica Hartert, 1905 . See Vaurie, 1957b: 4, Dickinson, 2003: 647, and Harrap, 2008c: 181–182.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684649 , adult male, collected at Ak-Su, southern Tien Shan (5 Tian-Schan), ca. 42.00N, 80.00E ( USBGN, 1959a), Turkestan , on 19 February 1902, by Andrei Kutzenko (no. 1801). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited the field number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of tianschanica as the Tien Shan from Semire, Djarkent to the eastern Tien Shan. The following specimens in AMNH are paratypes: AMNH 684650 , female, Ak-Su, 29 August, Kutzenko coll. ; AMNH 684651 , female, Djarkent , 2 December 1899, N. Zarudny coll. ; AMNH 684652 , female, Djarkent , 1 December 1899, Zarudny coll. ; AMNH 684653 , female, Bed of Karakal , 30 October 1901, Kutzenko coll. ; AMNH 684654 , male, S. of Issik-kul , January 1901, R. Tancre’s colls .; AMNH 684655 , female, Sirtag Mountains , undated, Tancre’s colls .; AMNH 684656 , female, Sirtag Mountains , February, Tancre’s colls .; AMNH 684657 , male, Barekaul , 30 November 1901, Kutzenko coll. ; and AMNH 684658 , female, no locality, 19 February 1902, Kutzenko coll. Rothschild acquired the Tancre specimens in 1901 and the Kutzendo and Zarudny specimens in 1902. The type locality is apparently the Ak-Su River shown at 42.34N, 78.18E ( USBGN, 1959a), flowing south from the central Tien Shan .

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