Parus elegans gilliardi Parkes

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 : 72

Parus elegans gilliardi Parkes

Parus elegans gilliardi Parkes, 1958: 98 (Lamao, Bataan Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands).

Now Periparus elegans gilliardi ( Parkes, 1958) . See Gosler and Clement, 2007: 724.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 459598 , adult male, collected at Lamao , 14.31N, 120.36E ( Dickinson et al., 1991: 420), Bataan Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on 6 December 1947, by E. Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: Parkes gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that his type series comprised five specimens from Lamao, three from Mt. Cayapo , and three from Mariveles. Of the 10 paratypes, the following seven, all collected by Gilliard in December 1947, are at AMNH: male, AMNH 459599 , Mt. Cayapo ; females, AMNH 459600 , AMNH 459601 , AMNH 459602 , AMNH 459603 , from Lamao , and AMNH 459604 , AMNH 459605 , from Mt. Cayapo. Parkes noted on the labels of AMNH 459600 and AMNH 459603 that they were probably males. AMNH 459606 , a female from Mt. Cayapo, is part of the same series but was mounted for the Philippines diorama in the Whitney Hall of Oceanic Birds in 1952 and would not have been available in 1958. Parkes (1958: 95) borrowed specimens from various museums, but did not indicate where the remaining paratypes were housed .