Pardalotus melanocephalus sedani 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 : 129

Pardalotus melanocephalus sedani Mathews

Pardalotus melanocephalus sedani Mathews, 1913c: 77 (Cloncurry River, Queensland).

Now Pardalotus striatus uropygialis Gould, 1840 . See Salomonsen, 1961c: 28, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 699088, male, and AMNH 699089, female, collected at Sedan, 20.02S, 141.07E ( Storr, 1984: 188), Cloncurry River, Queensland, Australia, on 4 March 1910. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Mathews named this form, he said that the type, from the Cloncurry River, was collected on 4 March 1910. The original labels also bear the locality ‘‘Sedan’’ but give no indication of the collector. Apparently, however, they were collected by W.R. McLennan for W.D.K. Macgillivray (1914: 132), who recorded that McLennan had his base camp at ‘‘Sedan Dip, about 10 miles north of Byromine Station and about 80 miles from the Cloncurry township’’ during the early part of 1910.

I did not find these specimens listed in Mathews catalog. Even though Salomonsen (1961c: 28) said that he had examined the type and cotype of sedani, neither specimen had been included with the type specimens at AMNH; moreover, because both specimens carry the same date, they must be considered syntypes. As Salomonsen (1961c: 28) noted, they have the traits of uropygialis .

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