Falcunculus frontatus lumholtzi 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 : 6

Falcunculus frontatus lumholtzi Mathews

Falcunculus frontatus lumholtzi Mathews, 1912e (December) : 119 (Queensland).

Now Falcunculus frontatus (Latham, 1801) . See Mayr, 1953, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 466– 467, and Boles, 2007: 409.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657262 , adult male, collected at Minnie Downs , 25.05S, 145.53E (Times Atlas), central Queensland, Australia, on 23 August 1881, by Carl Lumholtz. From the Mathews Collection (no. 14613) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Lumholtz collected for the University of Christiana, Oslo (ZMUO) and made an 800 mile trip into western Queensland in August 1881 ( Whittell, 1954: 457). His specimens were obtained by Mathews from Robert Collett, Director of the Museum and Professor of Zoology at the University. In addition to the field label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated by Mathews (1923b, pl. 491, lower left fig., opp. p. 2, text p. 3), where it is confirmed as the type of lumholtzi. A possible paratype is AMNH 657263, male, collected at Minnie Downs on 9 January 1882. Judging by the handwriting on the original label, it was also collected by Lumholtz, but I was unable to find the specimen in Mathews’ catalog.

Schodde and Mason (1999: 466–467) considered frontatus monotypic; Christidis and Boles (2008: 194–195) retained F. frontatus as a polytypic species.