Pachycephala leucura connectens 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 : 256-257

Pachycephala leucura connectens Mathews

Pachycephala leucura connectens Mathews, 1912a: 312 (Pt. Torment, North-West Australia).

Now Peneoenanthe pulverulenta cinereiceps (Hartert, 1905) . See Mayr, 1986d: 574, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 356–357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659710 , male, collect- ed at Napier Broome Bay , 14.03S 126.36E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 February 1910, by G.F. Hill. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5667) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description but made an error in the type locality, which he corrected in Mathews (1920a: 274). In addition to Hill’s original label, the specimen bears a Mathews Collection label, with the correct locality and his catalog number ; a Mathews type label; and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 398, lower fig., opp. p. 274, text p. 275). The text on p. 275 does not indicate that the figured specimen is the type of connectens, but the data are unique. In the original description, Mathews gave the range of this form as ‘‘North-West Australia’’, which would include his large series of specimens collected by J.P. Rogers at Point Torment in 1910 and 1911—undoubtedly the source of his error as to type locality. In fact, his type label once had ‘‘ Pachycephala leucura tormenti ’’ written on it, with tormenti marked out and connectens written in. It had also previously had another, now unreadable, catalog number on it. Although the Point Torment birds are part of the type series of connectens, I can find no evidence that Mathews ever introduced the name tormenti for these birds. The following specimens are paratypes of connectens: Point Torment , AMNH 659694 (Mathews no. 8186), 659695 (8184 or 8187), 659696 (not listed), 659697 (8436), 659698 (8614), 659699 (8613), 659700 (8185), 659701 (8188), 659702 (8181), 659703 (8183), 659704 (8180 or 8182), 659705 (8179), 659706 (8175), 659707 (8177), 659708 (8178), 659709 (8176), 659711 (5666), 659712 (5664), 659713 (5665), 659714 (5663), and 659715 (5662). Of these, AMNH 659706 was sent to the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby. There were at least three paratypes from Point Torment that did not come to AMNH: 8180 or 8182, female, dated 6 January 1911 ; 8184 or 8187, male, dated 26 December 1910; and 8189, male, dated 5 January 1911.

Poecilodryas hypoleuca steini Stresemann and