Lophophanes cristatus mitratus ( Brehm, 1831 )

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 : 276

Parus cristatus alpinus Heim de Balsac & Jouard, 1927

1927 Revue française d’Ornithologie 11: 292.

Parus cristatus poeninus Jouard, 1929

1929 Alauda série I, 1: 25 (material), 36 (description).

Parus cristatus poeninus Jouard, 1929 is a new name for Parus cristatus alpinus Heim de Balsac & Jouard, 1927 , preoccupied by Parus atricapillus alpinus Ghidini & von Burg, 1924 (described in Jouard 1925: 72).

Now Lophophanes cristatus mitratus ( Brehm, 1831) .

See Dickinson & Christidis, 2014: 428.

Syntypes: MHNG 927.072 , adult male, collected in Switzerland ( Montana , Valais) on 29 January 1927; MHNG 927.073 , adult female, same locality, 23 January 1927, both collected by H. Jouard.

Additional material examined (not types): Heim de Balsac & Jouard (1927), followed by Jouard (1929), examined 12 specimens (including the syntypes). Because they explicitly defined a type series, we treat the 10 specimens as additional material and not as syntypes (Art. 72.4.6 of the Code). Two of them have been found in the collection: MHNG 927.075 , adult male, same locality, 22 December 1926; MHNG 927.078 , adult female, same locality, 2 January 1927. Both were collected by H. Jouard.