Colluricincla harmonica pallescens 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 : 53

Colluricincla harmonica pallescens Mathews

Colluricincla harmonica pallescens Mathews, 1912a: 369 (Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Colluricincla harmonica harmonica (Latham, 1801) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656702 , adult male, collected on the Barron River , Queensland, Australia, on 7[?] June 1911 by [A.P.] Dodd

(no. 26). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9306) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the above specimen has, in addition to Dodd’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels bearing the catalog number; it is also marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Mathews in his catalog. On Dodd’s collecting label, the locality is given as ‘‘ Barron River,’’ and while the Barron River flows into the ocean near Cairns , it is much more likely that this specimen was collected on the Barron River near Kuranda , 16.46S, 145.37E (Times Atlas), where the Dodds lived. The day of collection has been overwritten and could either be read as a ‘‘7’’ or a ‘‘1.’’

The following specimens, cataloged by Mathews before the publication of pallescens on 31 January 1912, are paratypes: Barron River, AMNH 656705 (Mathews no. 5014), male, collected 6 June 1910 by [A.P.] Dodd (no. 14) ; AMNH 656718 (9305), unsexed, on 12 July 1910 by Dodd. AMNH 656724 (10288), male collected on 5 October 1911 by Dodd and not cataloged until 13 February 1912, may have been in Mathews hand before the publication of the name and is a possible paratype. Four specimens from the Mathews Collection, AMNH 656719–656722 , were collected by E. Olive at Cooktown in 1896– 1900 and purchased from Robinson , but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog, and AMNH 656725 (11238) collected by Schra- der at Tolga, on the Atherton Tableland, was not cataloged by Mathews until March 1912 ; I do not consider them paratypes. Three specimens from the Mathews Collection , AMNH 656727–656729 , collected by Bowyer-Bower in 1885 at Cairns, were not cataloged by Mathews until May 1913, after the publication of pallescens. Other specimens in AMNH either were never in the Mathews Collection or were collected after the name was published .