Aphelocephala pectoralis todmordeni Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 183-184

Aphelocephala pectoralis todmordeni Mathews

Aphelocephala pectoralis todmordeni Mathews, 1923b: 35 (Todmorden, Central Australia).

Now Aphelocephala pectoralis (Gould, 1871) . See Mayr, 1986b: 459, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 221.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 683491 , adult male, collected on Todmorden Station , 27.04S, 134.49E (Times Atlas), 60 mi west of Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia, on 2 July 1914, by S.A. White (no. 1586). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Two Mathews specimens of Aphelocephala pectoralis from Todmorden came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, both collected on 2 July 1914 by S.A. White. AMNH 683491 bears a yellow ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating it was illustrated in Mathews (1923c: pl. 494, middle fig., opp. p. 37, text pp. 37–38). On p. 38, the figured male, with data matching the above specimen, was said to be the type of todmordeni, thus designating it the lectotype. This specimen had not previously been recognized as a type. The second specimen, AMNH 683492 , unsexed, collected by White at Todmorden on the same date, is a paralectotype ; this specimen lacks a tail. Neither specimen was cataloged by Mathews. There are additional paralectotypes in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .