Pachycephala pectoralis interjecta 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 : 24

Pachycephala pectoralis interjecta Mathews

Pachycephala pectoralis interjecta Mathews, 1920: 222 (Stirling Ranges).

Now Pachycephala pectoralis occidentalis Ramsay, 1878 . See Mayr, 1954: 22, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 441–444, Boles, 2007: 421, and Jønsson et al., 2008.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 657723 ( Mathews no. 10596), adult male, 31 August 1911 ; AMNH 657724 (10593), immature male, 30 August 1911 ; AMNH 657725 (10595), 4 October 1911 ; AMNH 657726 (6127), nonbreeding female, 19 October 1910 ; AMNH 657727 (6128), female, 9 September 1910 ; AMNH 657728 (10592), female, 8 September 1911 ; AMNH 657729 (10594), [unsexed], 22 August 1911 ; and AMNH 657730 (6129), female, Lake Balikup , 10 September 1910 ; all collected in the Stirling Range , Western Australia, Australia, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Mathews made no mention of a type for this name; therefore, all of his specimens from the Stirling Range must be considered syntypes (see also Mayr, 1954: 12). AMNH 657724 , 657725 , and 657728 bear labels printed ‘‘ Collection of H.L. White’ ’; however, they were all entered in Mathews catalog as having come directly from Whitlock.

Mayr (1954: 22) recognized P. p. occidentalis and considered interjecta a synonym of it. Schodde and Mason (1999: 441–444) considered occidentalis a synonym of fuliginosa with reservations, and Schodde (personal commun., 2009), with additional material, has found that occidentalis should be recognized.