Lewinornis rufiventris gawlerensis 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 : 42

Lewinornis rufiventris gawlerensis Mathews

Lewinornis rufiventris gawlerensis Mathews, 1920: 244 (Wataker, Gawler Ranges) .

Now Pachycephala rufiventris rufiventris (Latham, 1801) . See Mayr, 1967: 34, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 447–449, and Boles, 2007: 428.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 659220, male, and AMNH 659221, female, collected at Wartaka station on the southeast side of Lake Gairdner (5 Wataker, White, 1913: 21), 32.30S, 136.56E (USBGN, 1957), Gawler Ranges, South Australia, Australia, on 15 September 1912, by Samuel A. White (nos. 1040 and 949, respectively). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from ‘‘Wataker,’’ Gawler Ranges and cited no number. The above two specimens from his collection are the only two from ‘‘Wataker’’ that came to AMNH. There are two specimens of Pachycephala rufiventris , collected on 15 September 1912 by White and listed in Mathews’ catalog as nos. 15019 and 15020, that I believe refer to these specimens, but both are entered as males. White’s field label of AMNH 659220 had been marked ‘‘Type of gawlerensis’’ by Mathews and a Rothschild type label attached, but the name and the reference to the description were added in pencil by hand unknown. An AMNH type label has been added to both, indicating that they are syntypes of gawlerensis. There is a third syntype in SAMA, a male collected at Wartaka on 15 September 1912 (P. Horton, personal commun.).

White (1913: 25) reported on his trip to the Gawler Ranges and noted this species without giving further information on the number of specimens collected.