Pardalotinus striatus campbelli 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 : 127

Pardalotinus striatus campbelli Mathews

Pardalotinus striatus campbelli Mathews, 1924: 209 (Kangaroo Island).

Now Pardalotus striatus substriatus Mathews, 1912 . See Salomonsen, 1961c: 20–21, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 698910, adult male, collected on Kangaroo Island, 35.50S, 137.06E (USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, in October 1905, by A.G. Campbell (no. 1082). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type specimen, basing his entire description on an almost exact quotation from A.G. Campbell (1906: 144), who listed this form as Pardalotus ornatus . Mathews’ (1923b: 203) ‘‘quote,’’ which applied to Campbell’s specimens from Kangaroo Island, is as follows:

It differs somewhat from Victorian specimens in markings. Those from the north-east of the State are much richer than those from the north-west. They have the lower back and rump rufous instead of olive, and further have the tops [tips, in Campbell] of all the primaries white. The Kangaroo Island specimens have one character of each. They are olive coloured in the mantle like the birds from North-west Victoria, but have all the tips of the primaries white, like the north-eastern forms.

Campbell’s (1906: 140) list included all of the species of birds seen by members of the Australian Ornithologists’ Union expedition to Kangaroo Island, but the number of specimens collected was not given. Syntypes of P. s. campbelli would include any specimens collected by the group. There is another syntype of P. s. campbelli in MV: HLW 3234, collected by Campbell on Kangaroo Island (W. Longmore, personal commun.).

Salomonsen (1961c: 20–21) noted: ‘‘In the case of campbelli, Mathews did not choose a type, but I have examined the series on which he based the name, without, however, selecting a lectotype.’’ It is not clear what Salomonson thought might have been included in Mathews’ type series; AMNH 698910 is the only syntype in AMNH. I did not find Campbell’s specimen in Mathews’ catalog; however, Mathews (1942: 54) refers to ‘‘the Campbells, father and son, who lent me their collection.’’ No date is mentioned, but Mathews probably acquired some specimens from them when he borrowed their collection, and his collection was complete by the time he named this form.

Salomonsen (1961c: 30 and 1967: 206) incorrectly listed campbelli as having been described in the genus Pardalotus .