Certhia paradoxa 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 : 95

Certhia paradoxa Brehm

Certhia paradoxa Brehm, 1855: 76 (verierrt sich aus Ungarn sehr selten nach Deutschland).

Now Certhia brachydactyla brachydactyla Brehm, 1820 . See Hartert, 1918a: 26, Dickinson, 2003: 648, and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 457384 , female, collected in Hungary, on 7 May 1840, perhaps by Petenyi ( Hartert, 1918a: 26). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 26) listed this specimen as the type of paradoxa , thereby designating it the lectotype. A second specimen from Hungary, AMNH 457383, was undated in the AMNH catalog and was exchanged to ZMB. Other specimens marked paradoxa by Brehm were collected after the publication date of the name. One of them, AMNH 457382, an adult male collected at Rodatal on 10 December 1855, was mentioned by date in Brehm (1856b: 359) and Hartert has written a reference to this on the reverse of the Rothschild label. Even though someone has marked this label with red pencil as though they might have considered it a type, it has no such standing.