Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews

Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews, 1912a: 441 (South Queensland (Blackall Ranges)).

Now Sericulus chrysocephalus (Lewin, 1808) . See Mathews, 1926: 352–358; Hartert, 1929a: 57; Mathews, 1930: 889; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 6–8; Mayr, 1962c: 178; Gilliard, 1969: 335–344; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 628–629; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 346–349; 2009a: 400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679359, adult male, collected in the Blackall Range, 26.42S,

152.53E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 28 September 1903, from the Edwin Ashby Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3670) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as ‘‘ Queensland.’’ A second specimen that he obtained from Ashby and cataloged at the same time is a paratype: AMNH 679360 (Mathews no. 3669), male, Blackall Range, 28 September 1903. A specimen that he cataloged as 3673, male immature, Queensland, undated, did not come to AMNH.

Hartert (1929a: 57) did not recognize rothschildi and most recent authors have agreed.