Nesopardalotus quadragintus rex 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 : 118

[ Nesopardalotus quadragintus rex Mathews ]

Mathews (1923c: 37) named this form (published on 21 February 1923) so that it could be added to the already completed manuscript of part 4 of volume 11 of ‘‘Birds of Australia,’’ which was published 20 February 1924 (Stone, 1927: 440. and date on the wrappers). N. q. rex was listed in Mathews (1924: 227), but on p. 228, where Mathews ‘‘admits’’ two subspecies, the nominate subspecies was listed twice! However, in Mathews (1930: 725–726), both quadragintus and rex were recognized. The type was said to be from King Island, Bass Straits. No specimen of quadragintus from King Island came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. See also Schodde and Mason (1999: 125).