Parus dresseri longirostris Kleinschmidt, 1897: 65 (Latour).
Now Poecile palustris palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). See Hartert, 1905d: 373, Snow, 1967c: 72, and Gosler and Clement, 2007: 711–712.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 455879, female immature, collected at Latour, 45.32N, 02.42E (Times Atlas), Auvergne, France on 3 August 1857, by Léon Olphe-Galliard (Kleinschmidt no. 36). From the C.L. Brehm Collection, via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Kleinschmidt considered longirostris a manuscript name of Brehm’s and he had two specimens from the Brehm Collection bearing this name, written by Brehm. Kleinschmidt (1897: 65) gave the numbers 36 and 37 to these specimens, incorrectly transcribing the collecting dates as 1851 instead of 1857. On p. 96 of the same publication, he listed his number 36 as the type of longirostris; and the label bearing the number 36 is marked ‘‘ Typus von P. longirostris ’’ and initialed by Kleinschmidt. It bears a Rothschild type label although Hartert did not list it in any of the Rothschild type lists.
Kleinschmidt included in his type series a second specimen from the Brehm Collection, his number 37, paratype AMNH 455880, male, Loire, 10 September 1857 (marked ‘‘Cotypus von longirostris’’ and initialed by Kleinschmidt), and other specimens from his own collection from the region of the Rhein, which are also paratypes.