Colluricincla parvula omissa 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 : 50

Colluricincla parvula omissa Mathews

Colluricincla parvula omissa Mathews, 1913b: 68 (Melville Island).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha parvula Gould, 1845 . See Ford, 1979, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 454–457, and Boles, 2007: 431.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 656895 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957), Melville

Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 25 October 1911 by J.P. Rogers (no. 2265). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10813) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was collected on Melville Island on 25 October 1911 ; there are two such specimens from the Mathews Collection in AMNH, and although his catalog number appears on his type label, he did not cite it in the original description. AMNH 656895 bears a Mathews type label with the name Colluricincla parvula omissa written by Mathews, confirming that this specimen was his intended type ; in order to remove any ambiguity, I hereby designate AMNH 656895 the lectotype of C. p. omissa. In addition to Mathews’ type label, the specimen bears a Rothschild type label and Rogers’ original field label .

By the time Mathews published C. p. omissa on 23 October 1913, he had cataloged all of Rogers’ specimens from Melville Island ; and, while I did not find in his catalog three of the specimens now at AMNH, I consider all of the Melville Island specimens paralectotypes. Paralectotypes from Coopers Camp: AMNH 656896 (Mathews no. 10812, Rogers no. 2201), male, 17 October 1911 ; AMNH 656897 (10814, 2238), male, 21 October 1911 ; AMNH 656898 (10815, 2278), male, 26 October 1911 ; AMNH 656899 (–, 2925), male, 19 February 1912 ; AMNH 656900 (11468, 2438), male, 10 November 1911 ; AMNH 656901 (10809, 2268), male, 25 October 1911 ; 656902 (11467, 2514), female, 25 November 1911; AMNH 656903 (11466, 2343), female, 3 November 1911 ; AMNH 656904 (10811, 2069), female, 30 September 1911 ; AMNH 656905 (10810, 2241), unsexed, 21 October 1911. Paralectotypes from 10 miles southeast of Gordon Point : AMNH 656906 (13414, 3408), male, 9 May 1912 ; AMNH 656907 (–, 3464), female, 15 May 1912 ); AMNH 656908 (13413, 3450), female, 13 May 1912 ; AMNH 656909 (13686, 3563), male, 29 May 1912 ; AMNH 656910 (13687, 3559), male, 29 May 1912. Paralectotype from Medina Inlet, AMNH 656911 (11465, 2563), male, 2 December 1911 ; from 10 miles southeast of Snake Bay , AMNH 656912 (–, 2709), female, 31 December 1911. It is possible that AMNH 656907 is the specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 13685, a female, dated by him as 25 May 1912 ; otherwise, I did not find any Melville Island specimens in Mathews’ catalog that are not now in AMNH. AMNH 656902 bears a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label and is illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 480, upper figure, opp. p. 302, text p. 307) .