Falcunculus leucogaster stirlingi 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 : 6-7

Falcunculus leucogaster stirlingi Mathews

Falcunculus leucogaster stirlingi Mathews, 1915a: 133 (Stirling Ranges, West Australia).

Now Falcunculus leucogaster Gould, 1838 . See Mayr, 1953, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 468– 469, and Boles, 2007: 409.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 657266 , adult male, collected in the Stirling Range , 34.23S, 117.50E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, in October 1911, by F.B. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 10545) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from the Stirling Range. By that time, he had nine specimens collected in the Stirling Range by F.L. Whitlock (1911, 1912) in 1910 and 1911. On the original label of AMNH 657266, Mathews wrote ‘‘Type of stirlingi,’’ indicating that he considered this specimen his type. In order to validate his intent, I hereby designate AMNH 657266 the lectotype of Falcunculus leucogaster stirlingi . The specimen already bears an AMNH type label in addition to the original label and a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews.’’

Paralectotypes are: Males: AMNH 657265 (Mathews no. 6126), nr. Lake Baluish , 8 October 1910 ; AMNH 657267 (10546), 17 September 1911 ; AMNH 657268 and AMNH 657269 (10547), September 1911 ; AMNH 657270 (10544), 2 October 1911 ; Females : AMNH 657271 (10541), 5 October 1911 ; AMNH 657272 (10542), 18 September 1911 ; and AMNH 657273 (10543), 18 September 1911, all collected by Whitlock in the Stirling Range. Of these paralectotypes, AMNH 657265 and 657272 bear ‘‘ Figured’ ’ labels and are illustrated in Mathews (1923b, pl. 491, upper two figs., opp. p. 2, text pp. 13– 14) ; no type status is indicated.

Schodde and Mason (1999: 468–469) gave full species status to leucogaster ; Boles (2007: 409) considered it a subspecies of F. frontatus .