Alisterornis lanioides carnarvoni 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 : 44-45

Alisterornis lanioides carnarvoni Mathews

Alisterornis lanioides carnarvoni Mathews, 1913c: 75 (Carnarvon, Mid-west Australia).

Now Pachycephala lanioides carnarvoni (Mathews, 1913) . See Mees, 1964a: 93–94, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 450–451, and Boles, 2007: 429.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659285 , adult male, collected at Carnarvon , 24.53S, 113.40E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 505), Western Australia, Australia, on 29 September 1913, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18016) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews noted that the type was collected on 29 September 1913 by Carter; these data are unique to the above specimen. It bears a Carter field label with ‘‘Type’’ written on it by Mathews, a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ and a Rothschild type label with the name of this taxon written in pencil. The number ‘‘680’’ that appears on Carter’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). A second specimen, AMNH 659286, female, collected at Carnarvon on 1 October 1913 by Carter was not cataloged by Mathews but probably came to him at the same time; I consider it a paratype.

This subspecies was mistakenly spelled ‘‘ carnavoni ’’ by Mayr (1954: 8) and ‘‘ carnaroni ’’ by Mayr (1967: 35), but was spelled carnarvoni in the original description.