Parus lugubris kirmanensis Koelz

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 : 67-68

Parus lugubris kirmanensis Koelz

Parus lugubris kirmanensis Koelz, 1950: 8 (Dehibakri [Deh Bakri] in the Kuh i Jamal Bariz Range, west of Bam in southeastern Kirman, Iran).

Now Poecile lugubris kirmanensis ( Koelz, 1950) . See Vaurie, 1950a: 2–4, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 711.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 803072 ( FMNH 246502 ), adult male, collected at Dehibakri , Kuh i Jamal Bariz Range, southeastern Kerman (5 Kirman) Province, Iran, on 28 January 1940, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz listed his type series as 12 males and six females, including the holotype, all taken between 27 January and 13 February, 1940, at Dehibakri and vicinity. Part of Koelz’s collection was eventually deposited at FMNH, apparently including types of all of the forms described by Koelz (1950), and the types were exchanged back to AMNH in April 1972 because they were said in the original description to be in AMNH. AMNH 803072 bears an AMNH type label filled in by Vaurie and my measurements are identical with the measurements given by Koelz (1950: 9) for the type of kirmanensis: wing 78 mm, tail 64, bill from skull 14. A second male, AMNH 464245, was also collected on 28 January, but measured: wing 76, tail 62, bill from skull, 14. Paratypes of kirmanensis in AMNH, all collected in Kirman, Iran in 1940, are: Maskun, 13 February AMNH 464241, adult male, and AMNH 464242, adult female; Dehibakri, 27–30 January, AMNH 464243, adult female, AMNH 464244, adult male, AMNH 464245, adult male, AMNH 464246, adult male; Gndar Ushturn, 30 January, AMNH 464247, adult male; Dehidisk, 31 January, AMNH 801053 (FMNH 234633), adult male, and AMNH 801054 (FMNH 234636), adult female. These latter two were also exchanged to AMNH from FMNH, probably in the 1960s. The additional five male and four female paratypes are probably in FMNH.

The Kuh i Jamal Bariz Range listed by Koelz is apparently the Kūh-e Jebāl Bārez, south of Bam, 29.07N, 58.20E (Times Atlas), Kerman, Iran.