Pachycephala, Vigors, 1825

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 : 23

Pachycephala par compar Hartert

Pachycephala par compar Hartert, 1904a: 212 (Letti).

Now Pachycephala macrorhyncha compar Hartert, 1904 . See Dickinson, 2003: 476, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 658663 , adult male, collected on Leti (5 Letti) Island, 08.12S, 127.41E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 4 November 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 6033). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Leti and Moa islands . He noted that he had two males and five females from Leti and three males and one female from Moa , giving Kühn’s numbers for them. The following nine paratypes came to AMNH: Leti, male, AMNH 658664 (Kühn no. 6031), females, AMNH 658665 (6438), AMNH 658666 (6032), AMNH 658667 (6439), AMNH 658668 (6030) ; Moa , males, AMNH 658669 (6250), AMNH 658670 (6251), AMNH 658671 (6344), and female, AMNH 658672 (6204). Kühn’s specimen no. 6437 did not come to AMNH, but is a paratype, if found .