Parus major mahrattarum 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 : 75

Parus major mahrattarum Hartert

Parus major mahrattarum Hartert, 1905c: 499 ( Ceylon) .

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680522 , male collected on N[uwara] Eliya , 06.58N, 80.46E (Times Atlas), Sri Lanka (5 Ceylon), on 1 October 1868, E. Holdsworth Collection. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited the unique date of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of mahrattarum as ‘‘the Indian Peninsula, from the Vindhya Range southwards, and Ceylon.’’ Paratypes in AMNH are: Ceylon, AMNH 680521 , Cotton Estate , 1866, by Samuel Bligh, from the Holdsworth Collection ; AMNH 680523 , N. Eliya, 3 October 1868, Holdsworth collec- tion ; AMNH 680524 , Punduloya, 27 June 1894, by Ernest Green ; AMNH 680525 , Punduloya, 25 July 1894, by Ernest Green ; southern India, AMNH 680526 , Cardamman (? Cardamon ) Hills, 26 February 1870 ; AMNH 680527 , Coonoor, 4 February 1882, by William Davison ; AMNH 680528 , Ootacamund, 27 March 1876 ; AMNH 680529 , Toomkoor, 5 December 1875 ; and AMNH 680530 , Ootacamund, 1 March 1883, by William Davison .

In the original description, Hartert gave the number ‘‘182’’ for the holotype; however, this number was Holdsworth’s number for the species and appears on each of the above Holdsworth specimens.