Pachycephala gutturalis violetae 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 : 26

Pachycephala gutturalis violetae Mathews

Pachycephala gutturalis violetae Mathews, 1912c: 76 (West Northern Territory).

Now Pachycephala melanura robusta Masters, 1876 . See Galbraith, 1956: 199, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 445–446, Boles, 2007: 427, and Jønsson et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657875 , adult male, collected on the Daly River , 13.38S, 132.37E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, 10 September 1894, by Knut Dahl (no. 757). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11020) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Only one AMNH specimen of violetae is a paratype: AMNH 657876 (Mathews no. 11019), female, collected on the Daly River on 1 September 1894 by Dahl.

Both Galbraith (1956: 199) and Mayr (1967: 24) recognized violetae. See Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–446) for a discussion of species and subspecies limits.