Pomatorhinus temporalis tregellasi Mathews

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 72-73

Pomatorhinus temporalis tregellasi Mathews

Pomatorhinus temporalis tregellasi Mathews, 1912a: 334 (Victoria) .

Now Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 400–402.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585785 , adult male, collected at Frankston , 388089S, 1458079E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 20 March 1908, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3172) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. This entry illustrates one of the eccentricities of Mathews’ cataloging technique. Nos. 3172 and 3173 have been reused! The numbers were apparently first used for specimens of Ptilotis macleayana (5 Meliphaga macleayana ). Presumably these specimens were exchanged, as 3172 and 3173 do not appear on any of the Mathews specimens of Meliphaga macleayana that subsequently came to AMNH. Mathews must have considered the numbers again available. Both the holotype and another specimen of Pomatostomus temporalis were then written in over the previous entries. The data are correctly entered and Tregellas is given as the source of the specimens. I have checked the AMNH collection and find four specimens of Meliphaga macleayana bearing the subsequent Mathews catalog numbers 3174–3177 (all four are syntypes of Mathews’ Caloptilotis macleayana johnstoni ).

Although Mathews (1912a: 334) did not say how many specimens he had when he described Pomatorhinus temporalis tregellasi , the second specimen cataloged at the same time is a paratype. It is AMNH 585793, a male collected at Kamarooka, Victoria, on 3 March 1907, and although it does not bear the Mathews catalog number, its other data match Mathews’ catalog entry and it is the only Kamarooka specimen in AMNH. It does not have Tregellas’ characteristic label, but it is credited to Tregellas by Mathews in his catalog, and the handwriting on the small label could be that of Tregellas.

In addition to the field label, the Mathews type label, and the Rothschild type label, the holotype also bears the Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label. It is the lower figure in plate 432 in Mathews (1922: opposite p. 254).

Pomatorhinus temporalis cornwalli Mathews

Pomatorhinus temporalis cornwalli Mathews, 1912a: 335 (Cairns, North Queensland).

Now Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 400–402.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585823 , adult female, collected on the Barron River , 178009S, 1458259E ( Storr, 1984: 179), Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1911, by Frederick P. Dodd (no. 27). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9324) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number was cited in the original description. While Cairns was given as the type locality, the field label gives the locality as Barron River and the Mathews catalog number verifies its identification as the type. Mathews’ (1912a) Reference­list, in which this description was published, is dated January 1912. Thus, additional specimens collected by Dodd in March 1912 were not available to Mathews. Although Dodd’s name as the collector is not given in the original description, he is credited as the collector in Mathews’ catalog. No paratypes were identified.

Schodde and Mason (1999: 401–402) discussed various treatments of P. temporalis .

Pomatorhinus temporalis strepitans Mayr and Rand

Pomatorhinus temporalis strepitans Mayr and

Rand, 1935: 6 (Dogwa, Oriomo River, Western

Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis (Vig­

ors and Horsfield, 1827). See Mees, 1982: 125–

127, Coates, 1990: 76–77, and Schodde and

Mason, 1999: 401–402.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 421974 , adult male, collected at Dogwa , 40 m, Western Prov., Papua New Guinea, on 24 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand. From the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2998).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The 12 paratypes listed were cataloged as AMNH 421965– 421973 and 421975– 421977 ; of these, AMNH 421965 and 421971 were exchanged to FMNH, and AMNH 421972 was exchanged to ZMB .

Archbold and Rand (1935: 576–578) described the collecting localities. Wuroi was on the banks of the Oriomo River, about 65 km from the mouth, and Dogwa was in savanna country 9 km west, on the divide between the Oriomo River and tributaries of the Binaturi River. Dogwa is shown on older maps at ca. 088529S, 1438009E.

Dickinson (2003: 450) recognized strepitans.