Colluricincla harmonica oblita 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 : 53-54

Colluricincla harmonica oblita Mathews

Colluricincla harmonica oblita Mathews, 1912a: 369 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now Colluricincla harmonica harmonica (Latham, 1801) . See Mayr, 1967: 43, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656654 , adult male, collected near Mt. Abbot , 20.08S, 147.40E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 21 October 1907, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 369). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2493), via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, but carelessly gave the collecting locality as Inkerman. Stalker’s collection, mostly from the vicinity of Inkerman Station (19.45S, 147.29E, USBGN, 1957), was made for Sir William Ingram and reported on by his son Collingwood Ingram (1908a), who noted that Stalker also collected on mounts Elliot and Abbot. The above specimen is clearly labeled Mount Abbot, and so listed by Ingram (1908a: 472). It bears Stalker’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Stalker collected the single specimen.

Mathews gave the range of oblita as south Queensland, contrary to the site of collection of its holotype in northeast Queensland. Specimens collected by Lumholtz at Gracemere and Mackay in central east Queensland in 1881 and 1882, were not cataloged by Mathews until 2 November 1912, after the publication of oblita.