Pachycephala rosseliana Hartert

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 : 29-30

Pachycephala rosseliana Hartert

Pachycephala rosseliana Hartert, 1898c: 8 (Rossel Island).

Now Pachycephala citreogaster rosseliana Hartert, 1898 . See Galbraith, 1956: 203, Coates, 1990: 209–211, Dickinson, 2003: 476–477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 658007 , adult male, collected on Yela (5 Rossel) Island, 11.20S, 154.10E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 February 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1405). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, nor was a type mentioned in Hartert’s (1899a: 78) report on the entire Rossel Island collection. Hartert (1920a: 448) listed the type as Meek’s specimen no. 1405, thereby designating it the lectotype. The type series comprises only those specimens from the Rothschild Collection collected by Meek on Rossel in 1898. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 658008–658015, three adult males, one immature male, and four females. Two of these, AMNH 658011 and 658013, have tags initialed by O[tto] F[insch], who apparently compared a male and a female specimen from Meek’s collection with specimens of Pachycephala littayei from the Loyalty Islands.

Galbraith (1956: 203) synonymized rosseliana with P. pectoralis collaris ; Coates (1990: 211) and Boles (2007: 421) recognized rosseliana as a subspecies of P. pectoralis ; and Dickinson (2003: 476–477) considered rosseliana a subspecies of P. citreogaster .

Pachycephala pectoralis sexuvaria Rothschild