Colluricincla brunnea caloola Mathews

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 52-53

Colluricincla brunnea caloola Mathews

Colluricincla brunnea caloola Mathews, 1913a: 10 (Caloola, Leichhardt River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland).

Now Colluricincla harmonica brunnea Gould, 1841 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656794 , adult male, collected 14 miles downriver from Caloola Station , Leichhardt River, Queensland, Australia, on 12 June 1910, by William R. McLennan for William D.K. Macgillivray. From the Mathews Collection (no. 17304) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave the date and collecting locality of the type. AMNH 656794 is the only Mathews specimen with those data ; it bears the original label, marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Mathews, and both Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Mathews catalog number of the type was not given in the original description, and the catalog number that appears on the Rothschild type label is incorrectly written as ‘‘17309’’ ; the correct catalog number is 17304, a specimen obtained from Macgillivray and cataloged on 2 June 1913. Mathews at this time no longer wrote localities in his catalog ; however, Macgillivray (1914: 133) under 11 June 1910 noted that McLennan was camped 14 miles down the river (north) from Caloola. Caloola Station was reached by traveling west from Donaldson , 19.52S, 140.22E (Times Atlas), to the Leichhardt River .

Mathews cataloged a second male specimen at no. 17303 with a date of 22 July 1910, also obtained from Macgillivray and also without a locality in the catalog. From Macgillivray (1914: 134–135), it appears that McLennan was moving north on the Gregory River at this time. Macgillivray (1914: 173) noted the following: ‘‘ Colluricincla brunnea . Brown Shrike-Thrush.–Mr. M’Lennan collected two specimens in the Gulf country, both of which Mr. Mathews refers to this species. They differ very considerably from one another, and until a larger series of skins is examined and more observations made in a state of nature I would not consider the matter settled.’’ This specimen is a paratype of caloola and is now AMNH 656723, [immature] male, collected at Fiery Downs, Gregory River, on 22 July 1910 by McLennan.

Colluricincla brunnea tachycrypta Rothschild