Parus intercedens 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 : 73

Parus intercedens Brehm

Parus intercedens Brehm, 1855: 241 (Mitteldeutschland) .

Now Parus major major Linnaeus, 1758 . See Hartert, 1918a: 27, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 739–741.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455803 , female, collected at Greiz , 50.40N, 12.11E (Times Atlas), Germany, on 19 October 1819, by Oberländer (according to Hartert, 1918a: 27). From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm only said that the form was from middle Germany, without further information. However, AMNH 455803 is labeled intercedens by Brehm, and he commented on the reverse of his label ‘‘nova species, a nobis detecta.’’ It was listed as the type of intercedens by Hartert (1918a: 27), thereby designating it the lectotype. Two additional specimens from Greiz were cataloged at AMNH. AMNH 455804 is the lectotype of the following Brehm species and is not labeled intercedens ; I do not consider it a paralectotype of intercedens . The other, AMNH 455805, a female collected in October 1836, was exchanged to ZFMK; if labeled intercedens by Brehm, it is a paralectotype.