Pachycephala gutturalis youngi 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 : 25

Pachycephala gutturalis youngi Mathews

Pachycephala gutturalis youngi Mathews, 1912a: 313 (Victoria) .

Now Pachycephala pectoralis youngi Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 441–444, Boles, 2007: 421, and Jønsson et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657627 , adult [male], collected at Lal Lal , 37.41S, 144.02E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, in May 1886, from the Edwin Ashby Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2635) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It is not clear whether Ashby collected this specimen himself or only had it in his collection. The following numbers appear on Ashby’s label: ‘‘113,’’ ‘‘2’’ within a circle, ‘‘no. 35’’ (which has been crossed out), and ‘‘667A’’ (which refers to the number of this species in Mathews, 1908) ; also present is the following notation: ‘‘ Pachycephala intermedia North /examined by A.J. North /16.6.03.’’ The holotype also bears a Mathews Collection label and a Mathews type label, with Mathews’ catalog number. Victorian specimens that were cataloged by Mathews before the publication of youngi are paratypes: Blackburn, AMNH 657575 (Mathews no. 3781), male, 9 July 1910 ; Ringwood , AMNH 657576 (5051), male, 25 April 1910, AMNH 657577 , male, 14 June 1911, AMNH 657578 (5052), female, 28 March 1910, AMNH 657579 (8646), female, 25 February 1911, AMNH 657580 (8647), female, 25 February 1911, all collected by T. Tregellas ; Black Spur , AMNH 657605 (2634), male, May 1886, Ashby ; Mitcham , AMNH 657630 (5943), male, 6 August 1910, by T. Tregellas. Three specimens, AMNH 657628 and AMNH 657629 , males, Lang Lang, 10 March 1908 ; and AMNH 657661 , male, Hawthorne , 7 August 1906, collected by C.F. Cole before the publication of youngi are not considered paratypes as I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog, and Whittell (1954: 158) noted that Cole sent Mathews a large collection of birdskins later, in 1914. I have no information about when the following four specimens came into Mathews’ collection: AMNH 657574 , female, Grantville, Gippsland, 1903 ; AMNH 657604 , female, Beaconsfield , 11 June 1910 ; AMNH 657631 , immature male, Myrniong , 10 January 1897, Robert Hall ; and AMNH 657635 , female, Seville , 1884, H. Mills. Specimens from Selby and Olinda collected in December 1911 and January 1912 by Tregellas were not cataloged until March and May 1912, after the publication of youngi .