Alphacincla woodwardi didimus 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 : 56-57

Alphacincla woodwardi didimus Mathews

Alphacincla woodwardi didimus Mathews, 1916b: 83 (McArthur River, Northern Territory).

Now Colluricincla woodwardi Hartert, 1905 . See Mayr, 1967: 14, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 463, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656877 , immature male, collected at McArthur Station , 16.27S, 136.06E ( Storr, 1977:110), McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia, on 5 September 1913, by H.G. Barnard. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave the place and date of collection of the type as McArthur River on 5 September 1913. The above specimen is the only such specimen that came to AMNH and is the holotype. It bears a Mathews Collec- tion label, marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ by Mathews and a Rothschild type label. In addition there is an H.L. White Collection label (no. 145), filled in by Barnard, a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘ Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’ ’ and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923a, pl. 480, opp. p. 302, text p. 302), where it is confirmed as the type of didimus. The wing measurement of 114 mm given for this specimen is correct, but the specimen is a very worn juvenile. There is one paratype: AMNH 656878 , female, collected on the McArthur River , on 29 August 1913, by Barnard and also from the H.L. White Collection (no. 145). These specimens were probably acquired from White during Mathews’ 1914 trip to Australia ; neither was cataloged by Mathews.

[ Colluricincla woodwardi assimilis Mathews ]

Mathews (1914: 100) described assimilis from ‘‘ Northern Territory [East]’’ and designated as type a specimen collected at Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia on 20 July 1910. There is no specimen of Colluricincla in AMNH collected on 20 July 1910 from either Northern Territory or Western Australia.