Hylacola pyrrhopygia brevicauda Mathews

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 : 146

Hylacola pyrrhopygia brevicauda Mathews

Hylacola pyrrhopygia brevicauda Mathews, 1912a: 332 (Victoria).

Now Calamanthus cautus cautus (Gould, 1843) . See Mayr, 1986b: 430, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 148–149.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585523 , adult female, collected in Victoria, Australia, on 4 August 1910, by F.E. Howe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6244) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. He cataloged the single specimen, which he had received from F.E. Howe, on 26 January 1911. In addition to the field label, the specimen also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Hartert (1931: 50) listed brevicauda as a synonym of cautus . Mayr (1986b: 430) retained cautus in Hylacola and did not recognize subspecies.

Mathews (1913a: 200) specified the type locality as Underbool, Victoria. Only ‘‘Victoria’’ is shown on the field label of the holotype; however, there are two Mathews specimens collected by C.F. Cole at Underbool on 7 September 1910. They may be the source of the type locality cited by Mathews in 1913, although I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into Mathews’ possession. Howe also collected at Underbool and, in fact, the specimen of a different species cataloged by Mathews as number 6243 was from there and may have provided Mathews with the locality.

The species cauta is included in the genus Hylacola by del Hoyo et al. (2007: 589).