Pomatorhinus temporalis intermedius Mathews

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 73-74

Pomatorhinus temporalis intermedius Mathews

Pomatorhinus temporalis intermedius Mathews, 1912a: 335 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Pomatostomus temporalis rubeculus (Gould, 1840) . See Mees, 1961: 111–113, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 401–402.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585874 , adult female, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 198009S, 1368429E (Times Atlas), Upper Playford River, Northern Territory, Australia, on 23 March 1906, by William Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2068) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mathews did not say how many specimens he examined, but three additional females collected by Stalker at Alexandria were cataloged by Mathews at the same time (nos. 2070—2072). Even though Mathews did not write his catalog numbers on these specimens, their data match the catalog entries and they are the only Alexandria specimens in AMNH besides the holotype. All three were collected in July 1905, and one of Stalker’s labels serves for all three females. These paratypes are AMNH 585875– 585877. The number ‘‘532’’ on their labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews’ (1908) Handlist. Mathews (1930: 564) synonymized intermedius with rubeculus .

Mathews (1942: 51) noted that he acquired this collection from Collingwood Ingram, who reported on the collection made for his father, Sir William Ingram. In his first report, Ingram (1907: 405) only listed the three adult females collected in July 1905. Later, in his supplementary list, Ingram (1909) noted the delayed arrival of additional birds, including a female collected on 23 March 1906. (The collecting date was interpreted by both Ingram and Mathews as 23 March, but it could also be read as 29 March.) Ingram (1907: 388–390) quoted Stalker’s description of the area around Alexandria.