Pardalotus melanocephalus inexpectatus 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 : 128

Pardalotus melanocephalus inexpectatus Mathews

Pardalotus melanocephalus inexpectatus Mathews, 1912a: 390 (Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia).

Now Pardalotus melanocephalus uropygialis Gould, 1840 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699076 , adult male, collected at Parry Creek , 15.36S, 128.17E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), 5 miles west of Trig. Station HJ 9, East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 12 September 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 99). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2929) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ North-West Australia, Northern Territory.’’ A large number of specimens from the Kimberley in Western Australia and from Northern Territory were in the Mathews Collection when inexpectatus was named and all become paratypes ; some of them are also paratypes of P. m. tormenti (see below). Paratypes of inexpectatus are: collected by J.T. Tunney (but received by Mathews from WAM), 200 miles from Derby, AMNH 699053 (Mathews no. 5293) ; collected by J.P. Rogers, Point Torment, AMNH 699054– 699058 (8471–8473, 8475, 8476) ; Manguel (5 Marngle) Creek, AMNH 699059 (9206), AMNH 699060 (9205) ; collected by G.F. Hill, Pago Mission (5 mission station), Napier Broome Bay, AMNH 699061– 699071 (5696–5706), AMNH 699072 , an immature bird not cataloged by Mathews ; collected by Rogers, Parry Creek, AMNH 699073–699075 , 699077–699085 (2917–2928). I did not find the following in Mathews’ catalog and do not consider them paratypes: AMNH 699045–699047 collected on the South Alligator River in April and June 1903 by Tunney (Mathews probably received these via WAM) ; AMNH 699086 collected on the Forrest River on 1 September 1911 by C.P. Conigrave ; or AMNH 699087 collected in pine forest, Northwest Australia by L.McK. Burns. Specimens collected by T.H. Bowyer-Bower at Derby in 1886 were not cataloged by Mathews until 1913 .