Parus major caschmirensis Hartert

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 : 74-75

Parus major caschmirensis Hartert

Parus major caschmirensis Hartert, 1905d: 345 (Gilgit) .

Now Parus major caschmirensis Hartert, 1905 . See Eck and Martens, 2006: 38–40, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680520 , unsexed, collected at Gilgit, 35.54N, 74.20E (Times

Atlas), Kashmir, India, on 26 November 1878, by J. Scully (no. 2618). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Scully’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. It is the only specimen of caschmirensis that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.