Oreoica cristata pallescens 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 : 8

Oreoica cristata pallescens Mathews

Oreoica cristata pallescens Mathews, 1912a: 377 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Oreoica gutturalis pallescens Mathews, 1912 . See Mayr, 1967: 5, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 464–465, and Boles, 2007: 410.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657318 , male, collected at Alexandria Station (5 Alexandra), 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, in July 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2625) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Stalker’s original label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923, pl. 492, opp. p. 18, text p. 19). While this is undoubtedly the specimen illustrated, Mathews gave the date as July ‘‘1908’’ and said that it was collected ‘‘on Alexander’’; he also did not confirm that it was the type. The number ‘‘662’’ on the original label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Mathews (1912a: 377) gave the range of pallescens as Northern Territory; paratypes are: AMNH 657319 (Mathews no. 2624), sexed as a female but in male plumage, Alexandria Station, July 1905, collected by Stalker; and AMNH 657320 (5136), male, Tanami Gold Field, 26 March 1910, collected by J.P. Rogers (no. 4).

Ingram (1907: 411) reported on the Alexandria collection made by Stalker, whom he called William, and listed only the above two specimens.