Certhia familiaris pyrenaica Ingram, 1913

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 : 92

Certhia familiaris pyrenaica Ingram

Certhia familiaris pyrenaica Ingram, 1913: 549 (Reine Hortense, nr. Cauterets (altitude 1400 metres).

Now Certhia familiaris macrodactyla Brehm, 1831 . See Hartert, 1920a: 438, Vaurie, 1959: 540, and Dickinson, 2003: 647.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 684555, adult male, collected at Reine Hortense, 1400 m, near Cauterets, 42.53N, 00.06W (Times Atlas), central Pyrenees, France, on 30 December 1905, and AMNH 684556, ‘‘female’’ [5 adult male], collected at Sapinière de Riou, 1600 m, near Cauterets, France, on 6 February 1907, from the J. Mosquès collection (nos. 74 and 82, respectively). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the syntypes were said to be in the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920a: 438) commented on Ingram’s errors in citation of the sex and collecting locality of the specimen that is now AMNH 689556, and there is also a note on the reverse of the Rothschild type label to this effect. The specimen was originally sexed as a male, apparently changed to ♀ and then overwritten as s. Of the four Mosquès specimens of this form from Reine Hortense and Sapinière de Riou, these are the only two bearing the cited dates. All of the specimens were sexed as males.

Hartert (1920a: 438) did not recognize pyrenaica, synonymizing it with C. familiaris costae Bailly, 1847 , after being persuaded by Ingram’s (1913: 548) arguments that costae was recognizable (cf. Hartert, 1905d: 319). Hartert and Steinbacher (1933: 155–156) and Vaurie (1957b: 6) later agreed that specimens from the Pyrenees were identifiable with macrodactyla Brehm.

Stresemann (1940b: 60) listed the dates of publication and authors of the various parts of the ‘‘Ergänzungsband’’ of Hartert and Steinbacher published between 1932 and 1938.