Sittidae

Sitta europaea norvegica
Van Marle & Voous, 1950: 70

Current name:
Sitta europaea europaea

Eurasian Nuthatch
1 holotype, 3 paratypes

Holotype: ZMA 43072, adult female, Norheimsund (Hordaland, SW Norway), collected 30 Sep 1929 by A. Bernhoft-Osa, ex Van Marle coll. nr. 3072; wing 87.5, tail 43.5, bill to skull 21.9, tarsus 19.3.

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Paratype: ZMA 8018, adult female, Voss (Hordaland), collected 6 Nov 1937 by A. Bernhoft-Osa, ex Stavanger Mus. coll. nr. 2203, received Dec 1949; wing 88, tail 44.5, bill to skull 23.0, tarsus 20.0.

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Paratype: ZMA 42092, adult female, Granvin (Hordaland), collected 2 June 1928 by an unknown collector (handwriting of original label not Bernhoft-Osa), ex Van Marle coll. nr. 2092; wing 87, tail 45, bill to skull 22.0, tarsus 20.4.

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Paratype: ZMA 43070, adult female, Voss, collected 20 Dec 1930 by Bernhoft-Osa, ex Van Marle coll. nr. 3070; wing 85.5, tail 43, bill to skull 21.7, tarsus 20.7.

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Additional information
In the original description, the collecting date of the holotype was erroneously given as 2 Jun 1928; this date belongs to one of the paratypes, however. The range of this subspecies is restricted to the Hardanger, Voss, and Stavanger areas of SW Norway. The original series examined from here consisted of 7 males and 11 females (Van Marle & Voous 1950), but as males were stated to be indistinguishable from nominate europaea from Sweden, only the females are to be considered as types. Thus, ZMA 43071, a male collected together with the holotype, is not a paratype, nor is ZMA 42091, a male which was paired with paratype ZMA 42092. The other seven female paratypes are in some of the other collections examined by Van Marle and Voous, thus in the BMNH, NRM, ZMUC, or the Stavanger Museum. The underparts of the female of this taxon are largely pale buff, not white as in topotypical nominate europaea from Sweden, but Swedish females are not as uniform white as Van Marle & Voous (1950) suggest, especially in the south-west, and caesia/europaea intergrades from NE Denmark (Sjaelland, Lolland) are also close to Hordaland females.

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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