Neositta pileata milligani 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 : 86

Neositta pileata milligani Mathews

Neositta pileata milligani Mathews, 1912a: 380 (West Australia (East Murchinson)).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera pileata (Gould, 1838) . See Mayr, 1950: 283, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684270 , adult female, collected at Lake Way , 26.50S, 120.25E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509), East Murchison , Western Australia, Australia, on 25 August 1909, by F. L[awson] W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3974) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of milligani as ‘‘Mid Westralia.’’ Paratypes are: AMNH 684268 (Mathews no. 3816), male, Day Dawn, 1400 ft, 22 July 1903, F.L. [Whitlock], originally from WAM (no. 5837) ; AMNH 684269 (3815), female, Day Dawn, 1400 ft, 13 July 1903, F.L. [Whitlock], originally from WAM (no. 5830) ; and AMNH 684275 (3973), male, E. Murchison, F.L.W[hitlock]. Mathews also cataloged as no. 3974, a female, collected in E. Murchison on 25 August 1909 ; this paratype did not come to AMNH .

Whitlock (1910) published an account of his itinerary and collecting localities in the East Murchison River drainage in 1909.