Paridae
Parus ater pinicolus
Clancey, 1943: 66
Current name:
Parus ater britannicus
Coal Tit
2 paratypes
Paratype: ZMA 45560, male, Dornoch (SE Sutherlandshire, Scotland, U.K.), collected 31 Aug 1938 by P.A. Clancey (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 5560); wing 60.5, tail 43.5, bill to skull 10.4, tarsus 17.0.
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Paratype: ZMA 45561, female, Dornoch, collected 1 Sep 1938 by Clancey (ex Van Marle coll. nr. 5561); wing 60.5, tail 43.5, bill to skull 11.0, tarsus 17.2.
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Additional information
The holotype is in the RSME (Clancey coll.), an adult male from Rothiemurchus Forest (Inverness, N Scotland, U.K.), collected 27 Mar 1943 by P.A. Clancey. The type-series consisted of 25 birds, of which 5 were from the type locality, with the remaining 20 from Caithness, Sutherlandshire, Ross-shire, and elsewhere in Inverness (Clancey 1943); the Sutherlandshire paratypes included the birds now in ZMA (received from Clancey in the 1950's). This form differs slightly but constantly from topotypical britannicus in the more olive-grey mantle and scapulars (less buff) and browner-buff flanks to under tail-coverts (less tawny), and is recognized by, e.g., Eck (1984), but not by Snow (1957), Vaurie (1957), or Paynter (1967).
Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.
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