Pachycephala rufinucha P.L. Sclater

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 : 10-11

Pachycephala rufinucha P.L. Sclater

Pachycephala rufinucha P.L. Sclater, 1874: 692 (Atam, apud montes Papuanos Arfak).

Now Aleadryas rufinucha rufinucha (P.L. Sclater, 1874) . See Iredale, 1956: 106–107, Dickinson, 2003: 474, and Boles, 2007: 410–411.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 659441, adult male, collected at Hatam (5 Atam), 01.05S, 133.58E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568, converted to degrees and minutes), Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, in September 1872, by Luigi M. D’Albertis (no. 469). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When Sclater named this species, he did not say how many specimens D’Albertis collected. Salvadori (1881: 225) listed two specimens, of which the above syntype is specimen ‘‘a,’’ D’Albertis no. 469. The other syntype is not listed by Warren and Harrison (1971) or by Arbocco et al. (1979, 1986) and I have not traced its whereabouts.

The generic name Aleadryas was introduced by Iredale (1956: 106), with rufinucha as the type species, and was used by Sibley and Monroe (1990: 459). By omitting parentheses around Sclater’s name they indicated incorrectly that it was he who introduced the generic name.