Pardalotus punctatus leachi 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 : 118-119

Pardalotus punctatus leachi Mathews

Pardalotus punctatus leachi Mathews, 1912a: 389 (Tasmania) .

Now Pardalotus punctatus punctatus (Shaw, 1792) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 203, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 122–124 (and references therein), and Woinarski, 2008: 400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 698820 , adult female, collected in Tasmania, Australia, in November 1874. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4583) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, where the specimen was said to have come from [Richard H.W.] Leach. The number ‘‘726’’ on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908); in addition, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are two additional dataless Tasmanian specimens from the Mathews Collection, but I did not find them in his catalog; a fourth Tasmanian specimen was collected on Mt. Arthur on 1 December 1912, after the publication of the name on 31 January 1912.

Whittell (1954: 417) mentioned only Leach’s trip to Tasmania in 1863, but in 1910 Mathews cataloged specimens he received from Leach, revealing that Tasmanian specimens were collected over many years, including 1874. Whether or not Leach collected the specimens himself, Mathews received the holotype of leachi from him.