Neositta pileata subleucoptera 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 : 90

Neositta pileata subleucoptera Mathews

Neositta pileata subleucoptera Mathews, 1912a: 380 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera (Gould, 1840) . See Mayr, 1950: 288, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684361 , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Buchanan [River], Northern Territory, Australia, in May 1905. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2776) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of subleucoptera as Northern Territory. He misspelled the type locality and did not mention Buchanan, which appears on the label. This is probably the Buchanan River, which is near Alexandria. The incorrect spelling was copied in Greenway (1967a: 147). Only one other Mathews specimen was cataloged early enough to be considered a paratype: AMNH 684362 (Mathews no. 2775), unsexed, collected at Alexandria in May 1905 by W. Stalker. Specimens collected by Knut Dahl in nearby Arnhem Land were not cataloged until after the publication of subleucoptera and J.T. Tunney specimens were never in the Mathews Collection.