Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Author Pachycephalidae Author Aegithalidae Author Remizidae Author Paridae Author Sittidae Author Neosittidae Author Certhiidae Author Rhabdornithidae Author Climacteridae Author Dicaeidae Author Pardalotidae Author Nectariniidae, And Author Lecroy, Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org) text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 journal article 0003-0090 Parus ater insularis Hellmayr Parus ater insularis Hellmayr, 1902: 36 (Surugano-kumi). Now Periparus ater insularis ( Hellmayr, 1902 ) . See Eck and Martens, 2006: 23–28 , and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 722 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 681709 , adult male, collected in Suruga Province ( 5 Suruga-nokumi, Morioka et al., 2005: 153 ), Japan , undated, by collectors for A. Owston (no. 215). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Hellmayr listed as types two specimens : a male in the Rothschild Collection from Suruga-no-kumi, no. 215, and one other specimen—a female, no. 2554 in the v. Tschusi Collection, from Musashi (Hondo) collected in November. Hartert (1920a: 444) listed the male adult from Suruga as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype . It bears a Rothschild type label. The second specimen listed by Hellmayr is a paralectotype in NMW ( Morioka et al., 2005: 52 ). The only other Owston specimen in AMNH from Suruga is a female, also bearing the number 215, but not mentioned by Hellmayr. Both of these specimens bear an early Owston label without his name but a distinctive 3 inch by K inch cream cardboard rectangle with all four corners clipped off. One side bears what is probably a species number ( 215 in this case), the species name, and the sex of the specimen; the reverse has the locality.