Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Certhia himalayana cedricola
Koelz
Certhia himalayana cedricola
Koelz, 1939: 65
(Jalalabad,
Afghanistan
).
Now
Certhia himalayana himalayana
Vigors, 1832
.
See
Vaurie, 1957b: 13–14
, and
Harrap, 2008c: 184–185
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 466895
, adult female, collected at
Jalalabad
,
34.26N
,
70.25E
(Times Atlas),
Afghanistan
, on
18 December 1937
, by Walter Koelz.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz designated as type a female specimen collected on
18 December 1937
at Jalalabad, with wing measuring
67 mm
. The above specimen collected on that date has a wing measuring
67 mm
and is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Koelz. He (
Koelz, 1939: 65
) gave inclusive wing measurements for
five male
and
five female
specimens but listed only
eight paratypes
, by locality, all collected in 1937. The following
paratypes
came to
AMNH
: Jalalabad,
AMNH 466894
, female, 18 December, wing measuring
66 mm
and with no type annotations
;
AMNH 466897
, male, 18 December
;
Sirotai,
AMNH 466899
, female, 18 June
;
AMNH 466900
, female, 19 June
;
AMNH 466901
, male, 17 June
;
Farajghan Pass,
AMNH 466902
, male, 6 June
;
Kail,
AMNH 466903
, male, 3 June. Two unsexed specimens,
AMNH 466896
and
AMNH 466898
, collected at Jalalabad on
19 December 1937
, were not listed as
paratypes
by Koelz
.