Climacteris leucophaea grisescens 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 : 101

Climacteris leucophaea grisescens Mathews

Climacteris leucophaea grisescens Mathews, 1912a: 383 (South Australia).

Now Cormobates leucophaea grisescens (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 71–73, and Noske, 2007b: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 685169 , adult female, collected on Mt. Lofty , 35.00S, 138.42E ( USBGN, 1957), Mt. Lofty Range, South Australia, Australia, on 17 May 1910, by John B. Cleland (no. 102). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9460) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of griscens as South Australia. In his catalog, Mt. Lofty is given as the collecting locality (as it is on the original label), the collector is given as Cleland, and ‘‘Type’’ is written opposite the entry. In addition to the original label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923b: pl. 500, left figure, opp. p. 104, text p. 105), where it is confirmed that the figured female from Mt. Lofty is the type of grisescens. This specimen is listed under Climacteris picumna by Cleland (1911: 88).

Three additional Mathews specimens were collected in South Australia and cataloged before the description of grisescens was published on 31 January 1912. Paratypes are: Mt. Lofty , AMNH 685167 (Mathews no. 9974), male, 19 October 1911 ; AMNH 685168 (2820), female, 26 June 1897 ; and AMNH 685170 (9975), female, 19 October 1911 .