Pachycephala leucura greda 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 : 255

Pachycephala leucura greda Mathews

Pachycephala leucura greda Mathews, 1912c: 40 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Peneoenanthe pulverulenta alligator (Mathews, 1912) . See Mayr, 1986d: 574, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 356–357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659735 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 11 November 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2393). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11315) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. On 20 March 1912, when Mathews cataloged his four specimens of ‘‘ Pachycephala greda’’, he had received two shipments of Melville Island birds from Rogers ( Mathews, 1912c: 26), including specimens collected at Coopers Camp in September– December 1911. Three of the four came to AMNH ; the following two are paratypes: AMNH 659734 (Mathews no. 11318), male, collected 14 December 1911 ; and AMNH 659740 (11316), sex?, 14 December 1911. The fourth specimen, entered in his catalog as number 11317 by Mathews, male, collected 12 December 1911, is a paratype, if found. Specimens collected at Coopers Camp in 1912 and other Melville Island specimens collected later are not paratypes .