Colluricincla rufiventris whitei 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 : 55

Colluricincla rufiventris whitei Mathews

Colluricincla rufiventris whitei Mathews, 1912a: 370 (South Australia (Eyre’s Peninsula)).

Now Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris Gould, 1841 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656849 , adult male, collected on the Koppio (5 Copio, as on label) Hills, 34.25S, 135.51E ( USBGN, 1957), southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, on 13 October 1909, by Samuel A. White (no. 8). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9304) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The specimen bears, in addition to White’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. C. r. whitei was published on 31 January 1912, and specimens from Eyre Peninsula cataloged by Mathews before that date are paratypes: AMNH 656850 (Mathews no. 9570), male, Arno Bay , 8 September 1911 ; AMNH 656851 (9569), male, Warunda Creek , 26 August 1911 ; AMNH 656852 (9571), male, Lake Greenly ; AMNH 656856 (9970), male, 5 October 1911, AMNH 656857 (9969), male, 8 October 1911, and AMNH 656858 (9971), female, 5 October 1911, all three from nw Port Augusta. AMNH 656869 and 6568870 were collected by Arthur H. Mattingley at Warunda on 10 October 1900, but I did not find them in Mathews catalog and have no way of knowing when they came into his possession. I have not considered them paratypes .