Neositta pileata whitlocki 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 : 85

Neositta pileata whitlocki Mathews

Neositta pileata whitlocki Mathews, 1912b: 47 (Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera pileata (Gould, 1838) . See Mayr, 1950: 283, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684253 , adult male, collected in the Stirling Range , 34.23S, 117.50E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 24 September 1911, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 10482) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of whitlocki as the Stirling Range. There are two paratypes collected by Whitlock in the Stirling Range in AMNH: AMNH 684252 (Mathews no. 10483), male, 18 August 1911 ; and AMNH 684254 (10484), female, 18 August 1911. Although Whitlock’s original label is printed ‘‘Collection of H.L. White, Belltrees, N.S.W.,’’ Mathews’ catalog indicates that he obtained these specimens directly from Whitlock, who sometimes collected for White. Whitlock (1911) reported on his trip to the Stirling Range .