Sitta caesia minor A.E. Brehm, 1857: 447 (Pardo) Sitta europaea hispaniensis Witherby, 1913 Hartert, 1918a: 27 Dickinson, 2003: 644 Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Pachycephalidae Aegithalidae Remizidae Paridae Sittidae Neosittidae Certhiidae Rhabdornithidae Climacteridae Dicaeidae Pardalotidae Nectariniidae, And Lecroy, Mary Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 A. E. Brehm A. E. Brehm [787,1141,912,933] Aves Sittidae Sitta Animalia Passeriformes 81 81 Chordata subSpecies caesia minor      Sitta caesia minorA.E. Brehm, 1857: 447(Pardo).  Now  Sitta europaea hispaniensis Witherby, 1913. See  Hartert, 1918a: 27,  Dickinson, 2003: 644, and Harrap, 2008: 127–128.    HOLOTYPE:  AMNH 683619, adult female, collected at El Pardo( 5Pardo), 40.31N, 03.47W(Times Atlas), Spain, on  14 February 1857, by A.E. Brehm(no. 223). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.  COMMENTS: In the original description, A.E. Brehm noted that he had a single specimen collected at Pardo and that he had heard the male. A.E. Brehm’s name proved to be preoccupied by  Sitta minorBechstein, 1793, a synonym of  Sitta pusillaLatham, 1790; Witherby (1913: 78)provided a replacement name. The two names share the same type.  Greenway (1967a: 130)synonymized hispaniensiswith S. e. levantinaand failed to note that the description of  minorwas by A.E. Brehm. 1857-02-14 AMNH El Pardo & A. E. Brehm Spain 40.31 Spain 698 -3.47 81 81 AMNH 683619 1 holotype