Sericornis brunnea pallescens 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 : 140

Sericornis brunnea pallescens Mathews

Sericornis brunnea pallescens Mathews, 1912a: 353 (West Australia (Bore Well)).

Now Pyrrholaemus brunneus Gould, 1841 . See Mayr, 1986b: 426, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 160.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601169 , adult male, collected at Borewell (5 Bore Well), East Murchison, Western Australia, Australia, on 19 August 1909, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2233) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. He cataloged two additional Western Australian specimens at the same time: paratypes AMNH 601168 (Mathews no. 2235), female? from Kurrawang, collect- ed in May 1907 ; and AMNH 601170 (2234), male from Lake Way , collected 17 August 1909 by Whitlock. There are three additional specimens also collected by Whitlock at Lake Way on 17August 1909, but apparently not cataloged by Mathews. I consider them probable paratypes: AMNH 601171–601173 .

Whitlock (1910) reported on his expedition to the East Murchison, noting on p. 185 that on his route from Nannine to Wiluna, Borewell was 30 mi (southwest) from Wiluna, 26.37S, 120.12E (Times Atlas). On p. 201, he noted this species under Pyrrholaemus (Sericornis) brunnea .