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 Sitta europaea koelzi Vaurie Sitta europaea koelzi Vaurie, 1950b: 5 (Patkai Hills, Assam-Burma border). Now Sitta cinnamoventris koelzi Vaurie, 1950 . See Dickinson, 2003: 645 , Dickinson et al., 2006b: 291 , and Harrap, 2008b: 129–130 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 683925 , adult female, collected in the Patkai Hills , 27.20N , 96.00E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2594 ), Assam- Myanmar border, on 2 September 1888 , by Ernst Hartert (no. 34). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Vaurie cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of koelzi as ‘‘probably continuous southward from the Patkai Hills through the Naga Hills to the Barail Range in northern Cachar’ ’ and labeled the paratypes as koelzi . Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 683915–683917 , collected in upper Assam in 1901 by H.N. Coltart ; AMNH 683918 , 683919 , collected in Assam by F. Day ; AMNH 683920–683924 , collected in northern Cachar in 1895 by E.C. Stuart Baker .