Parus occidentalis Baird

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 : 70

Parus occidentalis Baird

Parus occidentalis Baird in Baird et al., 1858: xxxvii, 388, 391 (see below).

Now Poecile atricapillus occidentalis (S.F. Baird, 1858) . See Gosler and Clement, 2007: 714–715.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 39391, unsexed, collected in W[ashington] Territory, USA, undated, by Dr. George Suckley (Smithsonian Inst. no. 4538 bis). From the George N. Lawrence Collection (no. 291).

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, the entire type series of six specimens being listed by Baird. Deignan (1961: 341) listed all of the syntypes and noted that specimen no. 4538 bis had been sent to George N. Lawrence in 1859. It is this specimen that AMNH received with the Lawrence Collection.

The syntypes came from many localities along the northern Pacific coast of the United States. Although the type locality was restricted to Shoalwater Bay, Washington, by Ridgway (1904: 403), it remains the region encompassed by all of the syntypes (ICZN, 1999: 86, Art. 76.1) unless or until a lectotype is designated (ICZN, 1999: 87, Art. 76.2).