Pachycephala pectoralis bettingtoni 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 : 24-25

Pachycephala pectoralis bettingtoni Mathews

Pachycephala pectoralis bettingtoni Mathews, 1920: 222 (Bellbird Bore, Victorian Mallee) .

Now Pachycephala pectoralis fuliginosa Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 . See Mayr, 1967: 22, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 441–444, and Boles, 2007: 421.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 657608 (Mathews no. 18292), male ; and AMNH 657609

(18291), female, collected at Bellbird Bore, northwest Victoria, Australia, on 24 September 1913, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the ‘‘type’’ of bettingtoni was from Bellbird Bore. Only two specimens from this locality came to AMNH ; as there is no way of distinguishing between these specimens, both must be considered syntypes. Mathews mentioned that he had other specimens from Lingerande and Kow Plains, but these are not from the specified type locality .