Lewinornis rufiventris didimus 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 : 41-42

Lewinornis rufiventris didimus Mathews

Lewinornis rufiventris didimus Mathews, 1918b: 159 (South-west Australia).

Now Pachycephala rufiventris rufiventris (Latham, 1801) . See Whittell and Serventy, 1948: 65, Mayr, 1967: 34, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 447–449, and Boles, 2007: 428.

SYNTYPES: Collected at Broomehill, 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, by Thomas Carter: AMNH 659205 (Mathews no. 2700), adult male, 13 October 1907 ; AMNH 659207 (2699), adult male, 9 May 1906 ; AMNH 659208 (2698), adult female, 24 May 1908. Collected at Beverley, 32.07S, 116.66E ( USBGN, 1957), Avon (5 Dale, as on label) River, Western Australia, by G.C. Shortridge and J.W. Bill: AMNH 659210 (12626), adult male, 19 December 1905. Collected at Perth, 31.57S, 115.52E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004, 512), Western Australia: AMNH 659212 (2696) adult male, May 1906 ; AMNH 659214 (2695), unsexed, 16 January 1909. Collected at South Perth by ‘‘ E.F. F.’’: AMNH 695215 (5348), juvenile male, 25 November 1901. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: The original description reads: ‘‘ Differs from L. r. rufiventris in being darker above and below: Type South-west Australia.’’ There are seven AMNH specimens from the Mathews Collection that were cataloged by him prior to the publication of didimus ; these are the syntypes listed above. Mathews obtained AMNH 659210 from BMNH with Reg. no. 1905.12.26.42, presented by W.E. Balstrom, and AMNH 659215 from WAM with WAM no. 4468. None of these specimens had been previously recognized as types ; AMNH type labels have been attached.

I have not considered the following specimens from southwest Australia to be syntypes of didimus: AMNH 659206 , male, collected at Broomehill on 5 September 1910 by Carter, was taken before the publication of the name, but I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog and have no way of knowing when it came into his possession. AMNH 659209 , 659211 , and 659213 were not from the Mathews Collection. The following specimen was cataloged by Mathews but did not come to AMNH: Mathews no. 2697, collected at Broomehill on 5 January 1908 by Carter ; if found, it would be a syntype of didimus.