Parus cinerascens Slater

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 : 76

Parus cinerascens Slater Parus sarawacensis Slater

Parus cinerascens Slater, 1885a: 122 (Bungal Hills near Sarawak).

Now Parus major sarawacensis Slater, 1885 . See Slater, 1885b: 327, Eck and Martens, 2006: 38– 40, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 680707 , unsexed, collected in the Bungal Hills, Sarawak, Malaysia, undated, by Harold H. Everett for W.A. Harvey. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Slater had the single specimen, for which he first provided the name P. cinerascens . Discovering that this name was preoccupied by Parus cinerascens Vieillot, 1818 , he provided the replacement name P. sarawacensis . Slater apparently obtained the specimen from W.A. Harvey, whose name appears on the reverse of Slater’s label. However, H.H. Everett, whose name has been crossed out on the front of the label, was the collector, probably working for Harvey. Harold H. Everett was the brother of the well known collector Alfred H. Everett (see Sharpe, 1906: 349). A.H. Everett (1889: 119–120), in his list of Bornean birds, recorded P. sarawacensis as having been collected by H. Everett at Tagora. This locality was spelled Tegora by Smythies (1957: 715) and was said to be 8 miles south of Bau (01.25N, 110.10E, Times Atlas). The ‘‘Bungal Hills’’ mentioned in the original description perhaps corresponds to the ‘‘Buntal’’ mentioned by A.H. Everett (1889: 93) as being within 15 miles of Kuching (01.32N, 110.20E, Times Atlas).