Pachycephala melanura bynoei 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 : 26

Pachycephala melanura bynoei Mathews

Pachycephala melanura bynoei Mathews, 1918a: 136 (Port Hedland).

Now Pachycephala melanura melanura Gould, 1843 . See Galbraith, 1956: 199, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 445–446, and Boles, 2007: 427.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657830 , adult male, collected at Port Hedland , 20.24S, 118.36E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, Australia, on 22 October 1914, by F. Lawson Whitlock for Henry L. White. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews described only the male and said that his type was collected at Port Hedland on 22 October 1913. AMNH 657830 is the only Port Hedland specimen from the Mathews Collection. The H.L. White label is marked ‘‘ Type of bynoei’’ by Mathews, and the specimen bears in addition a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. Mathews did not catalog specimens collected as late as 1914.

Mayr (1967: 23–24) recognized bynoei and included it in P. pectoralis . See Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–446) for a discussion of species and subspecies limits.