Pardalotus melanocephalus barroni 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 barroni Mathews

Pardalotus melanocephalus barroni Mathews, 1912d: 96 (Cairns, Queensland).

Now Pardalotus striatus melanocephalus X P. s. uropygialis . See Ford, 1986: 102–104, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699106 , adult male, collected on the Barron River, on 7 May 1912 by [Alan P.] Dodd. From the Mathews Collection (no. 13245) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of barroni as ‘‘ North Queensland.’’ Paratypes are Barron River specimens cataloged by Mathews before the publication of the name on 18 September 1912: AMNH 699104 (Mathews no. 13244), adult male, collected on 5 April 1912 ; AMNH 699108 (12386), female, collected on 28 March 1912 ; AMNH 699111 (12385), unsexed, collected on 14 March 1912. A fourth possible paratype is AMNH 699109 (14149), female, collected on 24 July 1912, but not cataloged until 2 October 1912. According to Mathews’ catalog, these specimens were obtained from the Dodds , who lived at Kuranda on the Atherton Tableland and who usually collected near their home. Mathews consistently referred to Barron River birds as having been collected at Cairns , but in this case it is more likely that they are from the vicinity of Kuranda , 16.46S, 145.37E (Times Atlas) where their habitat—eucalypt woodland—is widespread .

The holotype of barroni shows some of the intergrade characters listed by Ford (1986: 103), most notably in the orange supraocular spot like uropygialis and the cinnamon/chestnut rump like melanocephalus .