Pachycephala grisola riordani 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 : 18

Pachycephala grisola riordani Mathews

Pachycephala grisola riordani Mathews : 1912b: 41 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Pachycephala simplex simplex Gould, 1843 . See Mayr, 1967: 17, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 439–440, and Boles, 2007: 416.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 658684 , female, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 1 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2322). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10669) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said ( Mathews, 1912b: 26)

that he had received two shipments of Melville Island specimens from Rogers ; these included specimens collected in October and November 1911 at Coopers Camp and cataloged by Mathews on 24 February and 20 March 1912. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 658678 (Mathews no. 11627), male ; AMNH 658679 (11629), male ; AMNH 658680 (11628), male ; AMNH 658681 (10670), male ; AMNH 658683 (10672), female ; AMNH 658685 (10671), female ; AMNH 658686 (11625), female ; and AMNH 658687 (11626), female .