Pardalotus rubricatus yorki Mathews, 1913

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 : 122

Pardalotus rubricatus yorki Mathews

Pardalotus rubricatus yorki Mathews, 1913a: 10 (Cape York).

Now Pardalotus rubricatus yorki Mathews, 1913 . See Salomonsen, 1961b: 16–24, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 126–127, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699195 , adult male, collected on the Jardine River , 10.55S, 142.13E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 11 May 1911, by William R. McLennan. From the Mathews Collection (no. 17290) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews designated as type a male collected on Cape York on 11 May 1912 (error for 1911) ; he did not cite his catalog number in the original description, but it is written on the Mathews type label of the specimen listed above. In addition, it bears McLennan’s field label, a Rothschild type label, and a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 509, opp. p. 210, text p. 220). It is there confirmed as the type of yorki, with the date correctly given.

Mathews referred to the type locality as Cape York. The only two Mathews specimens of this form from Cape York that came to AMNH are the holotype and paratype AMNH 699196 (Mathews no. 17291), a female collected on the Jardine River on the same date by McLennan. See Macgillivray (1914: 135) for an account of this trip.

The following forms of Pardalotus have been included in the species P. striatus by Schodde and Mason (1999: 128–131), who discussed various treatments. Subspecies are listed in the order they are presented in Salomonsen (1967: 204–208), with nomenclature following Schodde and Mason.