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 Certhia brachydactyla Brehm Certhia brachydactyla Brehm, 1820: 570 (Rodatal) . Now Certhia brachydactyla brachydactyla Brehm, 1820 . See Hartert, 1918a: 26 , and Harrap, 2008c: 183–184 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 457353 , adult male, collected at Renthendorf , 50.48N , 11.58E ( USBGN , 1959), Germany , on 29 December 1816 . From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Hartert (1918a: 26) listed this specimen as the type of C. brachydactyla (effectively designating it the lectotype of brachydactyla ) and possibly also the type of C. megarhynchos (see below). Brehm (1820: 579–580) had many specimens of brachydactyla , but said that he had seen his new form for the first time at the end of December, four years previously, not far from the Roda River , where he had collected two specimens on the same day and a third a day later. That statement points to the above specimen as one of the first three collected. It is the only Brehm specimen of brachydactyla in AMNH that was collected before the 1820 publication of the name. Brehm did not write brachydactyla on the label.