Pachycephala leucura alligator 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 alligator Mathews

Pachycephala leucura alligator Mathews, 1912a: 312 (Northern Territory (Alligator R.)).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659743 , adult female, collected on the Alligator River , Northern Territory, Australia, on 24 September 1903, by J.T. Tunney (no. 1622). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9342) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. He received this specimen on exchange from Rothschild and cataloged it on 26 September 1911 (which date he wrote on the reverse of the original Rothschild label). Additionally, it bears Tunney’s field label (I was unable to trace the number ‘‘1025’’ that appears on the reverse) ; a Mathews Collection label with the catalog number and ‘‘472’’, which refers to this species in Mathews (1908a) ; and a Mathews type label with his catalog number. This was apparently Mathews’ only specimen ; the other two specimens now in AMNH collect- ed by Tunney on the Alligator River were never in the Mathews Collection, and there is no indication that he had them in hand when he named alligator . Tunney’s collection from northwestern Australia was reported on by Hartert (1905a) .

According to Storr (1966: 64), on 25 September 1903, Tunney was 16 and 35 mi from the coast on the estuary of the South Alligator River, which flows into Van Diemen Gulf at 12.10S, 132.23E ( Storr, 1977: 113).