Pachycephala fortis trobriandi Hartert

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 : 49

Pachycephala fortis trobriandi Hartert

Pachycephala fortis trobriandi Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 236 (Kiriwina, Trobriands).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha trobriandi (Hartert, 1896) . See Ford, 1979, Coates, 1990: 220– 224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 657154 , adult male, collected on Kiriwina Island , 08.30S, 151.05E (PNG, 1984), Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 16 March 1895, by Albert S. Meek (no. 7). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but noted that he had a male and a female specimen. Later, Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 108) listed Meek’s specimen no. 7 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The paralectotype is AMNH 657155, female, collected on Kiriwina Island, on 11 March 1895, by Meek.

For a discussion of previous treatments of Australian forms of Colluricincla , see Schodde and Mason (1999: 456).