Lewinornis rufiventris dulcior 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 : 41

Lewinornis rufiventris dulcior Mathews

Lewinornis rufiventris dulcior Mathews, 1920: 244 (Watson River, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland).

Now Pachycephala rufiventris pallida Ramsay, 1878 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 447–449, and Boles, 2007: 428.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 659047, adult male, and AMNH 659048, female, collected on the Watson River, 13.20S, 141.50E ( Storr, 1984: 189), Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, on 5 July 1914 and 6 June 1914, respectively, by William R. McLennan. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The entire description of dulcior reads: ‘‘Differs from L.r. pallidus in being darker above and lighter below, with a much smaller and slenderer bill. Type from Watson River, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland.’’ This does not distinguish between the two Mathews specimens from the Watson River that came to AMNH and they must be considered syntypes. The male specimen bears a Rothschild type label, but it has been filled in with pencil in hand unknown, and neither specimen has any indication that it was selected by Mathews to serve as the type. Mathews did not catalog these specimens. Neither specimen bears a Mathews Collection label, both having only an unsigned collector’s field label and a Rothschild Museum label, printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews.’’ AMNH type labels have been added to the two syntypes.

McLennan was collecting for W.D.K. Macgillivray on the Watson River in June and July 1914 and, judged by the handwriting on the field labels, the syntypes of dulcior were collected by him.