Oreoica cristata lloydi 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 lloydi Mathews

Oreoica cristata lloydi Mathews in Carter and Mathews, 1917: 608 (Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia).

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

SYNTYPES: AMNH 657312, male, 18 October 1916, and AMNH 657313, female, 6 November 1916, collected on Dirk Hartog Island, 25.50S, 113.03E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In Carter and Mathews (1917), nomenclature was said to be by Mathews. No type was designated in the original description, nor was the number of specimens studied given. The above two specimens are the only ones that came to AMNH. Mathews acquired them after he had ceased cataloging his collection, and there is no indication on the labels or in Mathews (1923b: 18–27) concerning their type status; therefore, they must be considered syntypes. These syntypes had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.