Gilbertornis gilberti mallee 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 : 13-14

Gilbertornis gilberti mallee Mathews

Gilbertornis gilberti mallee Mathews, 1915a: 130 (Victoria) .

Now Pachycephala inornata Gould, 1841 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 437–438, and Boles, 2007: 412–413.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 659364 , adult male, collected at Gerahmin , Victoria, Australia, on 15 September 1912, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 15313) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type of mallee was said to be much lighter on the under-surface than the nominate form and to be from Victoria but was not specified by a catalog number. The range given for the subspecies was South Australia and Victoria. Mathews (1920: 249) later restricted the type locality of this paler form to Gerahmin. AMNH 659364 from Gerahmin bears Tregellas’ field label, Rothschild Collection and type labels, and a Mathews Collection label bearing his catalog number and ‘‘Type’’ written in his hand. As this was Mathews’ intended type, I hereby designate AMNH 659364 as the lectotype of Gilbertornis gilberti mallee .

The following specimens were found in Mathews’ catalog and are paralectotypes: Gawler Range, collected by S.A. White in 1912, AMNH 659351 , male, AMNH 659353 , female (Mathews no. 15016, probably applies to both specimens), 31 August, AMNH 659352 (15015), immature male, 15 September, AMNH 659354 (15014), female, 30 August ; Lake Gairdner , collected by S.A. White in 1912, AMNH 659355 , male, AMNH 659356 , female (15018, probably applies to both specimens) ; Mannum , collected by E. Ashby in October 1909, AMNH 659357 (6190), male, AMNH 659358 (6192) female, AMNH 659359 , immature ; Ward’s Soak near Iron Knob , collected by S.A. White, AMNH 659360 (15017), male, 26 August 1912 ; Gerahmin , collected by T. Tregellas on 15 September 1912, AMNH 659363 (15314), male, AMNH 659365 (15315), male, AMNH 659366 (15316), female ; Ouyen , collected by Tregellas on 28 August 1911, AMNH 659375 (10071), male, AMNH 659376 (10072), female ; Victoria, AMNH 659379 (3773), male. The following specimens are possible paralectotypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Murray Flats, collected by Cleland on 30 May 1911, AMNH 659361 , female ; Kow Plains , collected by Chandler in November 1911, AMNH 659362 , male, AMNH 659367 , male, AMNH 659368 , male, AMNH 659369 , male, AMNH 659370 , female ; Underbool , collected by Cole in September 1910, AMNH 659371 , male, AMNH 659372 , male, AMNH 659374 , female ; Walkup , collected by Cole in September 1910, AMNH 659373 , female ; Sunset , collected by Howe in September 1911, AMNH 659378 , female .

Gerahmin (5 Gyarrin), is now spelled Nyarrin, 35.23S, 142.41E (USBGN, 1957).