Pachycephala alberti 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 : 20

Pachycephala alberti Hartert

Pachycephala alberti Hartert, 1898c: 9 (Sudest Island).

Now Pachycephala simplex sudestensis (De Vis, 1892) . See Coates, 1990: 213–215, and Boles, 2007: 416.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 658629 , adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Tagula or Sudest) Island, 11.30S, 153.30E ( PNG, 1984), Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 April, 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1693). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Hartert (1920a: 446) listed as type Meek’s specimen no. 1693, thereby designating it the lectotype. Hartert (1898b: 523) discussed his new form and noted that Meek collected nine specimens. In addition to the lectotype, seven paralectotypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, all collected by Meek on Tacuta in April 1898: AMNH 658630–658632, males, and AMNH 658633–658636, females.

Based on De Vis’ published description Hartert (1898b: 523) decided De Vis’ form, Eopsaltria sudestensis , was not the same as his Pachycephala alberti . However, Mayr (1941: 151) listed alberti as a synonym of sudestensis , the holotype of which, in QM, has not been found ( Ingram, 1987: 251).