Gilbertornis gilberti subsp. mallee Mathews
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Pachycephalidae
Gilbertornis
Gilbertornis gilberti
Gilbertornis gilberti mallee mathews

description: Gilbertornis gilberti mallee Mathews   
 Gilbertornis gilberti mallee Mathews, 1915a: 130 (Victoria).   
 Now Pachycephala inornata Gould, 1841. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 437–438, and Boles, 2007: 412–413.   
 LECTOTYPE: AMNH 659364, adult male, collected at Gerahmin, Victoria, Australia, on 15 September 1912, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 15313) via the Rothschild Collection.   
 COMMENTS: In the original description, the type of mallee was said to be much lighter on the under-surface than the nominate form and to be from Victoria but was not specified by a catalog number. The range given for the subspecies was South Australia and Victoria. Mathews (1920: 249) later restricted the type locality of this paler form to Gerahmin. AMNH 659364 from Gerahmin bears Tregellas’ field label, Rothschild Collection and type labels, and a Mathews Collection label bearing his catalog number and ‘‘Type’’ written in his hand. As this was Mathews’ intended type, I hereby designate AMNH 659364 as the lectotype of Gilbertornis gilberti mallee.   
 The following specimens were found in Mathews’ catalog and are paralectotypes: Gawler Range, collected by S.A. White in 1912, AMNH 659351, male, AMNH 659353, female (Mathews no. 15016, probably applies to both specimens), 31 August, AMNH 659352 (15015), immature male, 15 September, AMNH 659354 (15014), female, 30 August; Lake Gairdner, collected by S.A. White in 1912, AMNH 659355, male, AMNH 659356, female (15018, probably applies to both specimens); Mannum, collected by E. Ashby in October 1909, AMNH 659357 (6190), male, AMNH 659358 (6192) female, AMNH 659359, immature; Ward’s Soak near Iron Knob, collected by S.A. White, AMNH 659360 (15017), male, 26 August 1912; Gerahmin, collected by T. Tregellas on 15 September 1912, AMNH 659363 (15314), male, AMNH 659365 (15315), male, AMNH 659366 (15316), female; Ouyen, collected by Tregellas on 28 August 1911, AMNH 659375 (10071), male, AMNH 659376 (10072), female; Victoria, AMNH 659379 (3773), male. The following specimens are possible paralectotypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Murray Flats, collected by Cleland on 30 May 1911, AMNH 659361, female; Kow Plains, collected by Chandler in November 1911, AMNH 659362, male, AMNH 659367, male, AMNH 659368, male, AMNH 659369, male, AMNH 659370, female; Underbool, collected by Cole in September 1910, AMNH 659371, male, AMNH 659372, male, AMNH 659374, female; Walkup, collected by Cole in September 1910, AMNH 659373, female; Sunset, collected by Howe in September 1911, AMNH 659378, female.   
 Gerahmin (5 Gyarrin), is now spelled Nyarrin, 35.23S, 142.41E (USBGN, 1957).
description: Published as part of 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:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on pages 13-14