Parus assimilis Brehm

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 : 68

Parus assimilis Brehm

Parus assimilis Brehm, 1855: 242 (Galizien) .

Now Poecile montanus borealis (Sélys-Longchamps, 1843) . See Snow, 1967c: 76, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 712–713.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 682238 (Kleinschmidt no. 53), adult male, collected in the Carpathian Mountains (5 Karpathen, as on label), Galicia, southwestern Poland, on 6 April 1852, by Count Wodzicki. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not designate a type or indicate how many specimens he examined. Kleinschmidt (1897: 88) listed the type of assimilis as his no. 53 in the Brehm Collection, thereby designating the above specimen the lectotype. I did not find other specimens labeled assimilis by Brehm.

Gosler and Clement (2007: 711) commented: ‘‘[ Poecile ] normally treated as feminine, but no evidence in original description or elsewhere justifies this, so genus is masculine by default.’’ See David and Gosselin (2008: 19) for explanation of derivation of Poecile .