Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Remizidae
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Nectariniidae, And
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Pachycephala robusta borroloola
Mathews
Pachycephala robusta borroloola
Mathews, 1918a: 137
(McArthur
River
, Eastern
Northern Territory
to Normanton).
Now
Pachycephala melanura robusta
Masters, 1876
.
See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 445–446
,
Boles, 2007: 427
, and
Jønsson et al., 2008
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 657894
, adult male, collected at
Borroloola
,
16.00S
,
136.15E
(Times Atlas),
lower McArthur River
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
23 June 1913
, by
Harry G. Barnard
(no. 78) for
Henry L. White. From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined, but he described only the male. AMNH 657894 bears in addition to the H.L. White label and a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1920
, pl. 462, opp. p. 224, text p. 225). There he noted that the figured male, collected at Borroloola on
23 June 1913
, was the type of
borroloola
, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. It had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.
The female,
AMNH 657895
, bearing the same data and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, was pictured with the above male, but no type status for it was indicated in Mathews’ text. It is a
paralectotype
of
borroloola
. Neither of these specimens was entered in Mathews’ catalog.
Mayr (1967: 24)
considered
borroloola
a synonym of
P. pectoralis violetae
; see
Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–446)
for a discussion of species and subspecies limits.