Pražák, 1894f : 240 Parus major blanfordi Pražák, 1894 Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of bird taxa (Aves) described by an ornithological swindler, Josef Prokop Pražák (1870 – 1904) Mlíkovský, Jiří Zootaxa 2011 3005 45 68 5K8KT Prazak Prazak [151,517,1440,1467] Aves Paridae Parus Animalia Passeriformes 13 58 Chordata subSpecies major blanfordi     Parus major blanfordi  Pražák, 1894f: 240.  NOW.  Parus major blanfordiPražák, 1894. See Hartert (1905: 344), Vaurie (1950: 21, 1959: 512) and Dickinson (2003: 524).    Holotype. NHMW33625 (formerly NHMW1888. VI.16, not IV as given by Pražák 1894f: 240), 3, collected by Enrico Andreini ( 1828–1894), an Italian army officer, who worked in Iranin 1857–1894( Piemontese 1969, Cronin 2008), on an unknown date [= 1857–1888, possibly in the mid 1880s] at “Teheran [= Tehran, Iran; 35.67°N, 51.42°E].   Remarks. Pražák (1894f: 240)said that he based his  P. m. blanfordion a NHMW specimen (listed above) and on a specimen in his private collection (reportedly a male, catalogued as JPPH 1955). There is no evidence that Pražák possessed any tit from Persiaor elsewhere from Asia. I thus believe that the specimen JPPH 1955 mayhave existed only in Pražák’s mind and I consider the NHMW specimen as the holotypeof this species.