Oreoica cristata westralensis 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 : 7

Oreoica cristata westralensis Mathews

Oreoica cristata westralensis Mathews, 1912a: 377 (South-West Australia).

Now Oreoica gutturalis gutturalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Mayr, 1953: 252–253, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 464–465, and Boles, 2007: 410.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657303 , adult male, collected at Broomehill , 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 July 1908, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2629) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype. In addition to the field label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923b, pl. 492, opp. p. 18, text p. 19), where it is confirmed as the type of westralensis. Paratypes are: AMNH 657305 (Mathews no. 2628), male, 27 October 1907 ; AMNH 657307 (2631), female, 22 October 1905 ; AMNH 657308 (2630), female, 18 September 1905, all collected by Carter at Broomehill. Two additional specimens are possible paratypes but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when he acquired them: AMNH 657304 , male, 22 September 1910, and AMNH 657306 , male juv., 27 August 1910, both also collected at Broomehill by Carter .