Neositta pileata melvillensis 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 : 89

Neositta pileata melvillensis Mathews

Neositta pileata melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 47 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera (Gould, 1840) . See Mayr, 1950: 288, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684346 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 11 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2167). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10703) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of melvillensis as Melville Island . Mathews (1912b: 26) noted that Rogers was still on Melville Island in early 1912 but had already forwarded two large collections from there. These collections would have included the specimens Rogers collected at Coopers Camp in 1911. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 684345 (Mathews no. 11612), male, 27 November ; AMNH 684347 (10701), male, 1 October ; AMNH 684348 (10702), female, 11 October ; AMNH 684349 (11611), female, 27 November .