Sitta frontalis saturatior Hartert, 1902

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 : 83-84

Sitta frontalis saturatior Hartert

Sitta frontalis saturatior Hartert, 1902b: 573 (Gunong Tahan) .

Now Sitta frontalis saturatior Hartert, 1902 . See Wells, 2007: 430, and Harrap, 2008b: 142–143.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 684086 , adult male, collected on Mt. Tahan , 04.38N, 102.14E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2632), 4000 ft, Malaysia, in September 1901, by John Waterstradt. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that his series consisted of two adult specimens, both marked male, collected in September and October 1901. Later, Hartert (1920a: 440) listed the adult male collected in September as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The paralectotype is AMNH 684087, male, collected on Mt. Tahan in October 1901.

Dickinson (2006: 234) and Dickinson et al. (2006b: 292) considered saturatior a synonym of S. frontalis frontalis , with the caveat that Wells (then in press) considered birds of the Malay Peninsula distinct. Wells (2007: 430) discussed the two subspecies and recognized saturatior; Harrap (2008b: 142–143) also recognized saturatior for Malay Peninsula birds.