Pachycephala superciliosa belcheri 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 : 258

Pachycephala superciliosa belcheri Mathews

Pachycephala superciliosa belcheri Mathews, 1912c: 40 (Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Poecilodryas cerviniventris (Gould, 1858) . See Mayr, 1986d: 577, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 354–355.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608114 , adult female, collected at Napier Broome Bay , 14.03S, 126.36E (Johnston and Storr, 2004: 511), Western Australia, Australia, on 21 June 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 601). From the Mathews Collection (no. 6225) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Hill’s field label, it bears a Mathews Collection label and a green Mathews type label. The number ‘‘469’’ on the Mathews label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). Mathews gave northwestern Australia as the range of belcheri, represented in his collection by 23 specimens from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Creek. These were listed in Mathews’ catalog at numbers 1753–1762, 1764–1766, and 5659–5661 ; however, when more than one specimen was collected on the same date, there was only one entry. These paratypes are AMNH 608083–608102 and 608111–608113. Specimens collected by T.H. Bowyer-Bower at Derby in 1886 were not cataloged by Mathews until May 1913 (see below), after the description of belcheri, and I do not consider them paratypes .