Pachycephala contempta 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 : 26

Pachycephala contempta Hartert

Pachycephala contempta Hartert, 1898d: 15 (Lord Howe Island).

Now Pachycephala pectoralis contempta Hartert, 1898 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 441–444, and Boles, 2007: 421.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 658048 , [adult male], collected on Lord Howe Island , Tasman Sea, Australia, purchased from H.H. Travers. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Three adult male specimens [by plumage] collected on Lord Howe Island and purchased from Travers came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920a: 448) did not further distinguish among the three specimens, but AMNH 658048 bears, in addition to the Travers label and a small metal tag with the number 0.1444, a Rothschild type label, indicating that this was the specimen Hartert intended as the type, and it was so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. In order to confirm Hartert’s intent and prevent misinterpretation of earlier literature, I hereby designate AMNH 658048 the lectotype of Pachycephala contempta Hartert, 1898 . The paralectotypes are AMNH 658049 and AMNH 658050.