Pardalotus melanocephalus tormenti 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 : 128-129

Pardalotus melanocephalus tormenti Mathews

Pardalotus melanocephalus tormenti Mathews, 1912d: 96 (Point Torment, North-west Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699055 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.01S, 123.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), King Sound, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 15 February 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1284). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8471) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Northwest Australia (coast).’’ This definition includes the Point Torment, Manguel Creek, and Derby specimens that are also paratypes of inexpectatus (see above). Paratypes of tormenti are: collected by J.P. Rogers, Point Torment, AMNH 699054 (Mathews no. 8472), male, 15 February 1911, AMNH 699056 (8476), male, 17 February 1911, AMNH 699057 (8473), male, 14 February 1911, AMNH 699058 (8475), female, 15 February 1911 ; Manguel Creek , AMNH 699059 , male, 30 May 1911, AMNH 699060 (9205), male 31 May 1911 ; collected by G.F. Hill, Pago Mission (5 mission station), Napier Broome Bay , AMNH 699061– 699071 (5696–5706), 24 November 1909 to 25 May 1910, AMNH 699072 , 20 October 1909, immature bird not cataloged by Mathews .