Neositta striata rothschildi 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 : 89

Neositta striata rothschildi Mathews

Neositta striata rothschildi Mathews, 1912a: 381 (Cairns, Queensland).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucocephala X D. c. striata . See Mayr, 1950: 286, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640– 641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684396 , adult female, collected at Cairns, 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, in August 1908, by Schrader. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2786) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of rothschildi as Cairns. The holotype bears three labels, all with the same Mathews catalog number: the Mathews Collection label with collecting data and the number ‘‘700’’ referring to the number of this species in Mathews (1908); the Mathews type label with ‘‘ Neositta striata cairnsensis ’’ written on it by Mathews; and the Rothschild type label with ‘‘ Neositta striata rothschildi ’’ written on it. I have found no evidence that Mathews ever introduced the name ‘‘ cairnsensis ’’ and think it was a name Mathews changed his mind about before publication. Only one additional specimen from Cairns was cataloged by Mathews at this time and is a paratype: AMNH 684397 (Mathews no. 2787), imma- ture female, collected at Cairns in August 1908 by Schrader. AMNH 684398 , an unsexed specimen from Cairns collected in 1884 was also in Mathews’ collection, but I was unable to find when it came into his possession .