Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 85-86

Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews

Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews, 1912a: 441 (South Queensland (Blackall Ranges)).

Now Sericulus chrysocephalus (Lewin, 1808) . See Mathews, 1926: 352–358; Hartert, 1929a: 57; Mathews, 1930: 889; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 6–8; Mayr, 1962c: 178; Gilliard, 1969: 335–344; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 628–629; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 346–349; 2009a: 400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679359 , adult male, collected in the Blackall Range, 26.42S,

152.53E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 28 September 1903, from the Edwin Ashby Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3670) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as ‘‘ Queensland.’’ A second specimen that he obtained from Ashby and cataloged at the same time is a paratype: AMNH 679360 (Mathews no. 3669), male, Blackall Range, 28 September 1903. A specimen that he cataloged as 3673, male immature, Queensland, undated, did not come to AMNH.

Hartert (1929a: 57) did not recognize rothschildi and most recent authors have agreed.