Cormobates minor northi 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 : 101

Cormobates minor northi Mathews

Cormobates minor northi Mathews, 1923c: 36 (Barron River, North Queensland).

Now Cormobates leucophaea minor (Ramsay, 1891) . See Greenway, 1967c: 166, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 70–72, and Noske, 2007b: 657.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 685233 ( Mathews no. 9013), 9 July 1910 ; AMNH 685234 (9014), 29 June 1910 ; AMNH 685235 , 4 July 1910 ; AMNH 685236 (9012), 5 August 1910 ; AMNH 685237 (8031), 8 July 1910 ; AMNH 685238 , 5 July 1910, all collected by [A.P.]

Dodd, probably near Kuranda. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that the type was from the Barron River, north Queensland and gave no range statement for minor or the number of specimens available to him. Six Mathews Collection specimens from the Barron River came to AMNH ; because there is no further information on the labels or in Mathews (1923b: 113–116) as to which specimen he considered the type, all must be considered syntypes. None of the specimens was sexed; but a male, AMNH 685235 , and a female (by plumage), AMNH 685234 , bear ‘‘Figured’’ labels and were illustrated in Mathews (1923: pl. 501, upper right and upper left figures, opp. p. 113, text pp. 113 and 114). Although I did not find AMNH 685235 and 685238 in Mathews’ catalog, the original labels of all of the specimens are in the same hand, and all of them would have been in Mathews’ possession by 1923. Mathews (1942: 53) noted that it was Allan P. Dodd from whom he received bird specimens .