Parus major cinereus Vieillot, 1818

Cibois, Alice, Vallotton, Laurent, Othman, Nagwa, Weber, Claude & Ruedi, Manuel, 2016, Type specimens of birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Geneva, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (2), pp. 269-282 : 279

Parus atriceps Horsfield, 1821

1821 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13: 160.

Now Parus major cinereus Vieillot, 1818 .

See Sharpe, 1903: 329.

The specimen MHNG 129.064 was labelled “ Parus atriceps, Java, Compagnie des Indes Orientales ”, suggesting that it belonged to the series collected in Java by T. Horsfield. However, the bird does not present the plumage characteristics of Parus major cinereus , the only Parus species found on Java, but that of a Poecile palustris (juvenile?). This specimen, of which the origin is unknown, was probably mislabelled and it probably does not belong to the birds collected by Horsfield. UMZC claimed the holotype of Parus atriceps ( Benson, 1999: 135) , which upon examination corresponds well to a Parus major cinereus individual (M. Brooke, pers. comm.). Dickinson et al. (2006: 90) suggested however that this specimen should be the lectotype and that paralectypes should be in other collections.