Pachycephala robusta intercedens 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 : 27

Pachycephala robusta intercedens Mathews

Pachycephala robusta intercedens Mathews, 1920: 227 (Normanton, Queensland).

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

SYNTYPES: AMNH 657896 (Kemp no. 4194), adult male, 21 March 1914 ; AMNH 657897 (4003), adult male, 18 February 1914 ; AMNH 657898 (4252), adult male, 1 April 1914 ; AMNH 657899 (4356), adult male, 15 April 1914 ; AMNH 657900 (3579), male immature, 5 December 1913 ; AMNH 657901 (4254), male immature, 1 April 1914 ; AMNH 657902 (4208), female, 24 March 1914 ; AMNH 657903 (4190), female?, 21 March 1914 ; AMNH 657904 (4357), female, 16 April 1914, all collected at Normanton, 17.40S, 141.05E ( Times Atlas ), Queensland, Australia, by Robin Kemp .

COMMENTS: Mathews did not indicate a type; therefore, all of the specimens collected by Kemp at Normanton must be considered syntypes. AMNH 657901 , immature male, was described in Mathews (1920: 225–226) but was not figured, and no statement was made as to its type status ; its label is marked ‘‘described.’’

Mayr (1967: 24) listed intercedens as a synonym of P. pectoralis violetae ; see Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–446) for a discussion of species and subspecies limits.