Falcunculus frontatus territori 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 : 6

Falcunculus frontatus territori Mathews

Falcunculus frontatus territori Mathews, 1916c: 91 (McArthur River, Northern Territory).

Now Falcunculus whitei A.J. Campbell, 1910 . See Mayr, 1953, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 468– 470, and Boles, 2007: 409.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657257 , adult male, collected at Borroloola , 16.03S, 136.17E ( Storr, 1977: 106), McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia, on 16 June 1913, by Harry G. Barnard (no. 81). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews noted that the type was a male collected 16 June 1913 on the McArthur River. AMNH 657257 is the only Mathews specimen in AMNH from Northern Territory; he obtained it from H.L. White but did not catalog it. In addition to White’s label and a Rothschild label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ it bears an AMNH type label. Mayr (1953: 250–251) restricted the type locality to Borroloola, the collecting locality of this unique specimen. The description of an adult male ( Mathews 1923b: 3–4) is based on this specimen, but it is not said to be figured or a type.

Barnard (1914: 47) published a list of the species observed and collected on his trip to the McArthur River for H.L. White, only saying that whitii (sic) was rare. Schodde and Mason (1999: 468–470) gave full species status to whitei ; Boles (2007: 409) considered it a subspecies of F. frontatus .