Climacteris rufa orientalis 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 : 100

Climacteris rufa orientalis Mathews

Climacteris rufa orientalis Mathews, 1912a: 382 (South Australia).

Now Climacteris rufus Gould, 1841 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 76, and Noske,2007b:659–660.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684990 , adult male, collected in South Australia, in January 1894. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2800) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It bears Rothschild and Mathews type labels and a Mathews collection label, each marked with the catalog number. The collection label is also marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews; the number ‘‘703’’ on this label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Only one additional Mathews specimen from South Australia, collected before the publication of orientalis , came to AMNH: paratype, AMNH 684991 (Mathews no. 2804), female, collected in South Australia in January 1894 .

The original label is not present on either of these specimens. According to Richard Schodde (personal commun.), these specimens almost certainly came from the northern Eyre Peninsula (Gawler Range), the only area in the range of this species that was accessible to ornithological exploration at the time.