Colluricincla brunnea parryi 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 : 51-52

Colluricincla brunnea parryi Mathews

Colluricincla brunnea parryi Mathews, 1912b: 46 (Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia).

Now Colluricincla harmonica brunnea Gould, 1841 . See Whittell and Serventy, 1948: 66, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 214–217, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656759 , adult male, collected 5 miles west of Trig. Station HJ 9, Parry Creek, alt. 10 ft, 15.36S, 128.17E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 29 August 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 33). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2502) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype of parryi in the original description. It bears, in addition to Rogers’ original label, a Mathews Collection label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 479, opp. p. 290, text p. 291), where it is confirmed as the type of parryi. The number ‘‘638’’ on the Mathews Collection label refers to this species in Mathews (1908). Mathews received five Parry Creek specimens of this form from Rogers, four of which came to AMNH. The three AMNH paratypes are: AMNH 656760 (Mathews no. 2501), male, 24 August 1908; AMNH 656761 (2503), female, 13 August 1908; and AMNH 656762 (2504), female 29 August 1908. AMNH 656761 was also illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 479, opp. p. 290, text p. 291). The specimen that did not come to AMNH was Mathews no. 2505, female, 5 August 1908, and if located is also a paratype. Mathews gave the range of parryi as northwest Australia, and the name was published on 2 April 1912. There are three additional specimens at AMNH that were in Mathews hand at that time and are also paratypes: AMNH 656756 (Mathews no. 5613), male, and AMNH 656758 (5614), female, both collected on Napier Broome Bay by C.F. Hill and cataloged 31 October 1910; AMNH 656765 (10384), male, collected on the Forrest River on 2 September 1911 and cataloged by Mathews on 24 February 1912. Three specimens collected by Conigrave on Napier Broome Bay and the Barton River in October 1911 were not cataloged by Mathews until 6 August 1912, long after parryi was published, and are not considered paratypes.