Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Author Pachycephalidae Author Aegithalidae Author Remizidae Author Paridae Author Sittidae Author Neosittidae Author Certhiidae Author Rhabdornithidae Author Climacteridae Author Dicaeidae Author Pardalotidae Author Nectariniidae, And Author Lecroy, Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org) text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 journal article 0003-0090 Sitta caesia minor A.E. Brehm Sitta europaea hispaniensis Witherby Sitta caesia minor A.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 ( 5 Pardo), 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 minor Bechstein, 1793 , a synonym of Sitta pusilla Latham, 1790 ; Witherby (1913: 78) provided a replacement name. The two names share the same type . Greenway (1967a: 130) synonymized hispaniensis with S. e. levantina and failed to note that the description of minor was by A.E. Brehm.