Pachycephala gutturalis consobrina 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 : 26-27

Pachycephala gutturalis consobrina Mathews

Pachycephala gutturalis consobrina Mathews, 1912c: 76 (Buchanan Island, Northern Territory).

Now Pachycephala melanura robusta Masters, 1876 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 445–446, Boles, 2007: 427, and Jønsson et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657882 , adult male, collected on Buchanan Island , 11.49S, 130.39E ( Storr, 1977: 106), entrance to Apsley Strait, Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia, on 17 February 1912, by John P. Rogers (no. 2889). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11859) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype but did not say how many specimens he examined. The holotype was the only specimen Mathews cataloged (as P. melanura ) on 7 May 1912; he published P. g. consobrina on 28 June 1912. All other Buchanan Island specimens that Mathews received from Rogers were cataloged 17 August 1912, after the publication of the name.

Galbraith (1956) did not list consobrina; Mayr (1967: 24) synonymized it with violetae. See Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–446) for a discussion of species and subspecies limits.