Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews, 1912

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 : 119

Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews

Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews, 1912d: 96 (Cairns) .

Now Pardalotus punctatus millitaris Mathews, 1912 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 203, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 122–124 (and references therein), and Woinarski, 2008: 400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 698842 , adult male, collected on the Barron River , Queensland, Australia, on 29 May 1912, by Alan P. Dodd. From the Mathews Collection (no. 13837) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of millitaris as ‘‘Cairns, North Queensland.’’ In Mathews’ catalog, this entire collection from Alan P. Dodd ( Mathews, 1942: 53) is listed as from Cairns, although the Dodds lived at Kuranda, 16.46S, 145.37E (Times Atlas), on the Atherton Tableland, and most of their specimens were collected near their home. The original label gives the locality as Barron River; in addition, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. P. p. millitaris was published on 28 June 1912. Only one specimen now in AMNH could be a paratype: AMNH 698841 was collected on the Herbert River in Queensland in August 1882, probably by Lumholtz, as Mathews received it from Collett, from whom he received specimens collected by Dahl in 1894–1896 and by Lumholtz in 1880–1883 ( Whittell, 1954: 184, 457). Nevertheless, this collection was not cataloged until November 1912 and was received after the publication of the name ( Mathews, 1912b: 25).