Colluricincla rufiventris murchisoni 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 : 55

Colluricincla rufiventris murchisoni Mathews

Colluricincla rufiventris murchisoni Mathews, 1912d: 94 (East Murchison, Westralia).

Now Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris Gould, 1841 . See Whittell and Serventy, 1948: 66, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462, and Boles, 2007: 432–433.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656809 , adult male, collected at Milly Pool , East Murchison River drainage, Western Australia, Australia, on 17 October 1909, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3896) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of murchisoni as East Murchison. In addition to Whitlock’s label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Whitlock (1910: 186–187) was at Milly Pool, ca. 20 miles northwest of Wiluna, 26.37S, 120.12E (Times Atlas), from mid-September to 6 November 1909, and the type locality of murchisoni is hereby restricted to Milly Pool. Four additional Mathews specimens at AMNH are paratypes: AMNH 656810 (Mathews no. 3897), male, and AMNH 656811 (3898), female, 25 September 1909 (noted in Mathews’ catalog as a pair); AMNH 656812 (3899), 20 September 1909, and AMNH 656813 (2901), 21 October 1909, juveniles, all collected in East Murchison by Whitlock. Whitlock (1910: 207) did not mention how many specimens of ‘‘ Collyriocincla ’’ rufiventris he collected, but another specimen was cataloged by Mathews as no. 3900, juvenile, collected on 20 September 1909 and, if found, is also a paratype of murchisoni.