Parus melanothorax Olphe-Galliard

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 : 71

Parus melanothorax Olphe-Galliard

Parus melanothorax Olphe-Galliard, 1892: 137 ( Norge) .

Now Poecile cinctus lapponicus (Lundahl, 1848) . See Hartert, 1918a: 27, Snow, 1967c: 86, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 717.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455884 , male juvenile, collected in Norway, on 10 August 1860,

by Alfred E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Olphe-Galliard published his letters from C.L. Brehm, and in a letter dated 4 October 1860, Brehm discussed birds collected in Norway by his son. Parus melanothorax is noted in the letter as new and a description is given; thus, this name is a manuscript name of Brehm’s published by Olphe-Galliard. On his label Brehm has written ‘‘ Poecila melanothorax .’’ No mention is made of the number of specimens collected, but Hartert (1918a: 27), quoting Brehm’s label note ‘‘s transitu a veste juvenad vestem perfectam,’’ identified this specimen as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. It is the only specimen of P. cinctus that came to AMNH from the Brehm Collection. See David and Gosselin (2008: 19) for treatment of Poecile as masculine.