Pardalotinus striatus finki 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 : 126-127

Pardalotinus striatus finki Mathews

Pardalotinus striatus finki Mathews, 1914: 101 (Running Water, Fink [sic] River).

Now Pardalotus striatus substriatus Mathews, 1912 . See Salomonsen, 1961c: 20, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 698990 , female, collected at Running Waters , Finke River (5 Running Water, Fink River), Northern Territory, Australia, on 27 August 1913, by S.A. White (no. 1398). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that his type was from ‘‘Running Water, Fink River’’ and gave the range of finki as ‘‘Central Australia.’’ The type specimen bears S.A. White’s original label, marked ‘‘Type of Pardalotinus striatus finki A[ustral] A[vian] R[ecord] vol. 2’’ in Mathews’ hand, and a Rothschild type label. The number ‘‘1398’’ that is given on the Rothschild type label is White’s field number; Mathews cataloged few specimens from White’s 1913 trip. White (1914: 435) listed the three specimens of this form that he collected, noting that it was the first record of the species for central Australia; on p. 438 he called attention to Mathews’ description of ‘‘ finkei.’’ The locality ‘‘Running Waters’’ is not shown on White’s map (opp. p. 407), but from the narrative (p. 411) one can ascertain that it is in the neighborhood of 24.30S, 133.00E; the holotype is the single specimen that he collected at that place. The two additional specimens secured by White are paratypes: AMNH 698988 (White no. 1396), immature male, collected at Hamilton Bore, Stevenson River, South Australia, on 7 October 1913; AMNH 698989 (1397), female, collected at New Crown Point, Northern Territory, on 17 August 1913 (not 7 August as in White, 1914: 435).

Salomonsen (1961c: 30 and 1967: 206) incorrectly listed finki as having been described in the genus Pardalotus .