Oreoica cristata clelandi 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 : 7

Oreoica cristata clelandi Mathews

Oreoica cristata clelandi Mathews, 1912a: 376 (Coonalpyn, South Australia).

Now Oreoica gutturalis gutturalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Mayr, 1953: 252–253, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 464–465, and Boles, 2007: 410.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657321 , adult male, collected at Coonalpyn , 90 Mile Desert, 35.41S, 139.52E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 17 May 1911, by John B. Cleland (no. a). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8925) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as South Australia. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 657328 ( Mathews no. 9952), male, NW Port Augusta, 5 October 1911, S.A. White (no. 218) ; AMNH 657329 (9951), female, NW Port Augusta , 8 October 1911, S.A. White (no. 207) ; AMNH 657336 (2623), male, South Australia, 1876 ; and AMNH 657337 (2622), female, South Australia. Cleland (1912: 13) apparently collected only one specimen .