Colluricincla woodwardi Hartert, 1905

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 : 56

Colluricincla woodwardi Hartert

Colluricincla woodwardi Hartert, 1905a: 228 (10 miles east of South Alligator River).

Now Colluricincla woodwardi Hartert, 1905 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 463, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656875 , adult male, collected 10 miles east of South Alligator River , Northern Territory, Australia, on 15 August 1903, by John T. Tunney (no. 1545). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Tunney’s field number of the holotype in the original description; it is illustrated in Hartert, 1906b: pl. I, fig. 2. Hartert, in addition to the holotype, had three female specimens in his type series, one of which came to AMNH: paratype, AMNH 656876, adult female, South Alligator River, mountain country, 15 August 1903, Tunney no. 1546. Tunney’s collection was divided between the WAM and Walter Rothschild ( Hartert, 1905a: 194) and presumably the remaining paratypes are in WAM. The Tunney numbers of these two specimens are given by Hartert (1905a: 228) as nos. 1544 and 1545, the latter being a duplication of the number on the holotype, and it may be a typographical error.

Storr (1966) discussed Tunney’s itinerary in northern Australia in 1901–1903 and (p. 63) gave his locality from 13–16 August as Margaret River, a mile west of Grove Hill, 13.29S, 131.33E (Times Atlas). However, Schodde (personal commun.) has pointed out that the Margaret River is 50–100 miles west of the South Alligator River, in open country with rounded quartzite outcrops, an area completely unsuitable for C. woodwardi , and that the locality on the label and cited by Hartert is an area of sandstone outcrops that skirt the east flood plain of the South Alligator River, an area to which C. woodwardi is confined.