Colluricincla harmonica kingi 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 : 54

Colluricincla harmonica kingi Mathews

Colluricincla harmonica kingi Mathews, 1923a: 289 (King Island).

Now Colluricincla harmonica strigata Swainson, 1837 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 656733, immature male, and AMNH 656734, female, collected on King Island, 39.50S, 144.00E (USBGN, 1957), Tasmania, Australia, on 3 and 2 May 1914, respectively, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews’ comment, ‘‘Type, King Island,’’ does not distinguish between his two specimens from that locality; therefore, they both must be considered syntypes. Mathews did not catalog these specimens. That they were collected by Tregellas is evident from the handwriting on the field labels; and proof that he was on King Island in May 1914 is supplied by one entry in Mathews’ catalog, specimen no. 18482, Amaurodryas kingi (5 Petroica vittata ), collected on 2 May 1914 by Tregellas. The number ‘‘636’’ that appears on Tregellas’ field labels of the syntypes refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908).