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 caeruleus cyrenaicae Hartert Parus caeruleus cyrenaicae Hartert, 1922b: 140 (juniper woods near Merg). Now Cyanistes teneriffae cyrenaicae (Hartert, 1922) . See Gosler and Clement, 2007: 747–748 , Kirwan, 2008 , and Päckert and Martens, 2008: 830–831 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 681166 , adult male, collected in juniper woods near Al Marj ( 5 Merg), 32.30N , 20.50E (Times Atlas), eastern Libya ( 5 Cyrenaica), on 4 May 1922 , by Ernst Hartert and Carl Hilgert. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type an adult male collected near Merg on 4 May 1922 ; the above specimen is the only adult male collected on that date. Later, in his report on the entire collection, he ( Hartert, 1923: 15 ) gave measurements for three adult males and four adult females, also mentioning young birds collected. The seven adults and three young birds came to AMNH ; the nine paratypes are: AMNH 681167–681175 . All were collected at the type locality 4–11 May 1922 . See Hartert (1923) for a description of the entire expedition .