Colluricincla brunnea roebucki 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 : 51

Colluricincla brunnea roebucki Mathews

Colluricincla brunnea roebucki Mathews, 1912d: 94 (Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Colluricincla harmonica brunnea Gould, 1841 . See Whittell and Serventy, 1948: 66, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 214–217, and Boles, 2007: 431–432.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656797 , adult male, collected at Roebuck Bay , 18.04S, 122.17E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 25 November 1895, by Knut Dahl (no. 1445). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10998) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype of roebucki in the original description. He had four specimens from Roebuck Bay , cataloged as having been received from Dahl, but they came to Mathews from Professor Collett at ZMUO. The three paratypes are: AMNH 656798 (Mathews no. 10999, Dahl no. 1471), male, collected 3 December 1895 ; AMNH 656799 (10997, 1551), female, collected 18 December 1895 ; and AMNH 656800 (11000,?), female, collected 9 November 1895. AMNH 656800 was exchanged to George E. Sutton at OMNH in March 1963 and now has OMNH no. 15601 (Tamaki Yuri, personal commun.). Mathews considered Roebuck Bay to be in ‘‘ North-west’ ’ Australia (see type locality) but gave the range of roebucki as ‘‘Mid- Westralia.’’ Because Mathews gave the range of parryi ( Mathews, 1912b: 46) as ‘‘ Northwest Australia’ ’ (see below), I consider as paratypes of roebucki only the specimens from Roebuck Bay .

During the dates recorded on the labels of these specimens, Dahl (1927: 272–306) was collecting at Hill Station, some miles north of Broome, 17.58S, 122.14E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504).