Climacteris picumnus australis 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 : 98

Climacteris picumnus australis Mathews

Climacteris picumnus australis Mathews, 1912a: 382 (Murray Flats, South Australia).

Now Climacteris picumnus picumnus Temminck, 1824 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 77–78, and Noske, 2007b: 659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 685048 , adult male, collected at Murray Flats , 14 miles west of Blanchetown, 34.21S, 139.38E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 30 May 1911, by John B. Cleland (no. Z). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8931) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of australis as South Australia. Paratypes in AMNH are: collected by S.A. White, AMNH 685043 (Mathews no. 9971), female, and AMNH 685044 (9972), unsexed, on the western slopes of the Flinders Range, northeast of Port Augusta on 11 October 1911 ; and AMNH 685045 (9702), female, Mt. Lofty Range, east of Adelaide, 12 August 1911. AMNH 685048 , male from Mt. Grainger was collected on 11 Sept. 1911 and obtained from Edwin Ashby , but not cataloged until 4 April 1912 (catalog no. 11693), after the publication of australis on 31 January 1912 ; it is not a paratype.