Neositta pileata broomi 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 : 85-86

Neositta pileata broomi Mathews

Neositta pileata broomi Mathews , January, 1912a: 380 (West Australia (Broome Hill)).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera pileata (Gould, 1838) . See Mayr, 1950: 283, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684257 , female, collected at Broomehill, 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, on 24 September 1905, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2773) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of broomi as southwest Australia. The holotype bears, in addition to Carter’s original label, a Mathews Collection label (the number ‘‘697’’ on this label refers to this species in Mathews, 1908), a Mathews type label, and a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illus- trated in Mathews (1923b: pl. 497, opp. p. 64, text p. 65), where it is confirmed as the type of broomi. An AMNH type label has been added. Greenway (1967a: 145) misspelled this taxon broomei, which can cause confusion with Neositta pileata broomei Mathews , September 1912 (see below).

Mathews (1912a: 380) gave the range of broomi as southwestern Australia. Specimens from the Mathews Collection that were cataloged by Mathews before the publication date of broomi on 31 January 1912 are paratypes: Wilson Inlet, collected by F.L. Whitlock, AMNH 684238 (Mathews no. 4788), male, 12 April 1910 ; AMNH 684239 (5462), male, 10 May 1910, AMNH 684240 (4201), male, 8 January 1910, AMNH 684241 (4655), male, 22 February 1910, AMNH 684242 (4654), male, 19 March 1910, AMNH 684243 (4202), male, 8 January 1910, AMNH 684244 (4653), male, 24 February 1910, AMNH 684245 (4787), female, 15 April 1910 ; Albany, collected by Tom Carter, AMNH 684250 (2769), male, 23 February 1905, AMNH 684251 (2774), immature female, 24 February 1905 ; Broomehill, collected by Tom Carter, AMNH 684256 (2772), female, 26 February 1906, AMNH 684260 (2768), male, 16 June 1906, AMNH 684261 (2770), male, 4 January 1907, AMNH 684263 (2771), male, 21 October 1906 ; Bebra Lake , Perth, AMNH 684264 (2767), male, 4 May 1907. Other specimens are perhaps paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog. Paratype AMNH 684239 also bears a Mathews ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923b: pl. 497, opp. p. 64, text p. 65) .