Neositta magnirostris Ingram

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 : 88-89

Neositta magnirostris Ingram

Neositta magnirostris Ingram, 1908b: 99 (Inkerman District, N. Queensland).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucocephala X D. c. striata . See Mayr, 1950: 286, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640– 641.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 684367 , adult male, collected at Inkerman Station , 19.45S, 147.29E ( USBGN, 1957), northern Queensland, Australia, on 14 March 1907, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Ingram did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined. But in his full report on the collection, he ( Ingram, 1908a: 473 and pl. 9) listed three males, one female, and one unsexed adult from Inkerman, collected on 14 March 1907, and one male collected in the Spring Ranges in September 1907. Stalker’s collection from Inkerman was acquired by G.M. Mathews, but apparently the above type came into Rothschild’s possession before the Mathews Collection was bought by him. Its Rothschild label is not printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ and it was not cataloged by Mathews, as were the other four specimens. Therefore, when Hartert (1920a: 440) listed as type a male collected on 14 March 1907, he effectively designated the single specimen that came directly to the Rothschild Collection as the lectotype. The Stalker label on AMNH 685367 is marked ‘‘Type,’’ and the specimen bears a Rothschild type label. The number ‘‘700A’’ that appears on this label refers to the number of the species in Mathews (1908). The remaining four specimens in Ingram’s type series came to Rothschild with the Mathews Collection and are paralectotypes: Inkerman, 14 March 1907, AMNH 684366 (Mathews no. 2790), male, AMNH 684369 (2789), unsexed, AMNH 684370 (2788), female; and Spring Ranges, September 1907, AMNH 684368 (2791), male.

AMNH 684370 bears a Mathews type label, marked ‘‘CO-TYPE’’ of magnirostris . Until Hartert designated the Rothschild Collection male as the lectotype, this female specimen would have been a syntype. It remains in the AMNH type collection because it bears a Mathews type label, but it now is a paralectotype, and a label identifying it as such has been added.

Stalker made this collection at Inkerman Station, northern Queensland, about 50 miles southwest of Townsville and approximately 10 miles from the banks of the Burdekin River ( Ingram, 1908a: 460).