Smicrornis brevirostris 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 : 166-167

Smicrornis brevirostris pallescens Mathews

Smicrornis brevirostris pallescens Mathews, 1912a: 306 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now Smicrornis brevirostris brevirostris (Gould, 1838) . See Mayr, 1986b: 443, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 176–178.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606352 , adult female, collected on Mount Abbot , 20.08S, 147.40E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in October 1907, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1706) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Stalker’s label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels; the number ‘‘450’’ on the reverse of Stalker’s label is the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). The locality ‘‘Inkerman’’ refers to the Inkerman Station in Queensland where Stalker collected for Sir William Ingram in 1907. This collection was first reported on by Collingwood Ingram (1908) and this specimen identified as Smicrornis flavescens . Ingram (1908: 460) placed Inkerman Station ca. 50 mi southwest (5 southeast?) of Townsville at ca. 20 ° S, 147 ° E, and about 10 mi from the banks of the Burdekin River. He noted that Stalker also collected birds on Mt. Elliot and Mt. Abbot. Mathews had this single specimen, which he cataloged as from Mt. Abbot, the locality on the label, but in his description referred only to ‘‘Inkerman’’. Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).

Mayr (1986b: 443) recognized pallescens; Schodde and Mason (1999: 176) included it in the range of nominate brevirostris .