Caleya megarhynchus normani 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 : 49

Caleya megarhynchus normani Mathews

Caleya megarhynhus normani Mathews, 1914: 100 (Norman River, Queensland).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha normani ( Mathews, 1914) . See Ford, 1979, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 454–457, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657005 , adult female, collected on the Norman River , 17.28S, 140.49E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 16 April 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. A355). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews listed as his type a specimen collected by Kemp on the Norman River on 16 April 1914. The above Mathews specimen is the only one of this species in AMNH from the Norman River and the only one from Queensland collected as late as 1914. The date was incorrectly copied onto the Roth- schild Collection label as 15 April, but 16 April is shown on the original label. The specimen bears only an AMNH type label in addition to the Mathews and Rothschild collection labels.

Because Mathews gave the range of normani vaguely as ‘‘north Queensland’’ in the original description and because he frequently changed his mind concerning the populations of C. megarhyncha in Queensland, I have been unable to decide which, if any, of the specimens now in AMNH might be considered paratypes. Mathews usually used ‘‘Cape York’’ when he intended that geographical area. By the time he ( Mathews, 1923a: 314) treated megarhyncha in Birds of Australia he was ‘‘inclined to the opinion’’ that the subspecies rufogaster (spelled ‘‘ rufigaster ’’) from New South Wales, cerviniventris from south Queensland, and normani presumably from north Queensland, were a species separate from C. m. gouldii from mid- Queensland and C. m. griseata from northeast Queensland. No characters were given to separate the two supposedly different north Queensland birds. By the time he published his Systema Avium Australasianarum, Mathews’ (1930: 648) opinion had apparently inclined in a different direction and he treated normani as a synonym of ‘‘ Caleya megarhyncha cerviniventris .’’