Pycnoptilus floccosus sandlandi Mathews, 1912

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 123-124

Pycnoptilus floccosus sandlandi Mathews

Pycnoptilus floccosus sandlandi Mathews, 1912a: 331 (Victoria).

Now Pycnoptilus floccosus sandlandi Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 140–141.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585363 , adult male, collected at Sassafras , Victoria, Australia, on

28 December 1908. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5433) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. According to the catalog, this specimen was obtained from Thomas H. Tregellas, as was a second undated specimen cataloged at the same time (no. 5434) from The Basin, Dandenong Range. Now AMNH 585364, this specimen is a paratype, as are two immature specimens, male AMNH 585368 (Mathews no. 6246) and female AMNH 585369 (6245) collected by F.E. Howe in Ferntree Gully, Victoria, on 6 November 1910 and cataloged by Mathews on 25 January 1911.

Mathews (1913a: 199) specified the type locality as Sassafras, the collecting locality of the holotype. Sassafras is probably Sassafras Gully, 37.52S, 145.21E (USBGN, 1957b), or the township of Sassafras in the southwest Dandenong Range. Hartert (1931: 49) listed this type.