Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 89

Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews

Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews, 1912a: 380 (North-West Australia (Mungi).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera (Gould, 1840) . See Mayr, 1950: 288, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684321 , adult female, collected at Mungi Rockhole , 18.45S, 123.44E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 miles southeast of Mt. Alexander, West Kimberley, northern Western Australia, Australia, on 4 July 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 1859). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9114) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of rogersi as ‘‘Interior North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears Rogers’ original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes are Mathews’ specimens (all males) collected by Rogers inland in the West Kimberley: Mungi Rockhole, AMNH 684319 (Mathews no. 9111), 30 June 1911 ; AMNH 684320 (9113), 22 June 1911 ; Manguel (spelled Marngle on label) Creek, AMNH 684322 (9112), male, 28 May 1911 .