Aegithalos caudatus taiti Ingram, 1913

Cibois, Alice, Vallotton, Laurent, Othman, Nagwa, Weber, Claude & Ruedi, Manuel, 2016, Type specimens of birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Geneva, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (2), pp. 269-282 : 276-277

Aegithalos caudatus bureaui Jouard, 1929

1929 Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France 54(3): 246.

Now Aegithalos caudatus taiti Ingram, 1913 .

See Greenway et al., 1967: 54.

Syntypes: Jouard (1929c) defined two specimens as the type series (“Types”): MHNG 928.037 , adult male, collected in France ( Vernet-les-Bains , Pyrénées Orientales) on 20 February 1928; MHNG 928.038 , adult female (?), collected in the same locality on 17 February 1928. Both were collected by H. Jouard.

Additional material examined (not types): Jouard (1929c) examined a total of eleven specimens (including the two syntypes), all from the same locality and collector. Because he explicitly defined a type series, we treat the nine specimens as additional material and not as syntypes, even the specimen mentioned as “Cotype” by Jouard (Art. 72.4.6 of the Code). They are described in detail in Jouard (1929b), and three have been found in the collection: MHNG 928.039 (unsexed adult, 16 February 1928; the “Cotype”), MHNG 928.040 (adult female, 21 March 1928) and MHNG 928.041 (adult male, 22 March 1928). Two additional specimens correspond to the same locality and year, but the collecting day does not match the information given by Jouard (1929b): MHNG 928.042 (unsexed adult, 25 March 1928), MHNG 928.043 [adult female (?), 25 March 1928].

Comment: The specimen MHNG 928.037 and 928.038 are pictured on plates 1-2 in Jouard (1929b).