Parus major longipennis Rothschild

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 : 77

Parus major longipennis Rothschild

Parus major longipennis Rothschild, 1922: 11 (Lichiang Range) .

Now Parus major tibetanus Hartert, 1905 . See Rothschild, 1926: 315, Snow, 1967c: 119, Eck and Martens, 2006: 36–38, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 680564 , adult male, collected in the Lijiang (5 Lichiang) Range , 9–12,000 ft, 27.13N, 100.10E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2570), northwestern Yunnan, China, on 10 December 1921, by George Forrest (no. 921). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild did not designate a type in the original description but gave measurements for at least three specimens. Hartert (1928a: 209) listed Forrest’s specimen no. 921 as the type, thus designating it the lectotype. It is marked ‘‘Type’’ on Forrest’s label, bears a Rothschild type label, and is the only specimen of ‘‘ longipennis ’’ in AMNH collected by Forrest in 1921 or earlier. There are two paralectotypes in BMNH ( LeCroy and Dickinson, 2001: 192).