Subspecies Pachycephala (Mattingleya) simplex peninsulae Hartert, 1899

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• Pachycephala peninsulae Hartert, E. 1899. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 8(60): 33 [Date published 27 Feb 1899] [33].
• Eopsaltria inornata Ramsay, E.P. 1874. Natural history. Australian Zoology. The following descriptions of three species of birds new to science. Sydney Mail, 15 Aug 1874. pp. 201 [201] [junior secondary homonym of Pachycephala inornata Gould, 1841 in Pachycephala Vigors, 1825, and permanently invalid through action of Mathews, Novit. Zool. 18 (1912: 317), ICdZN Art. 59.3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.18571 adult ♀, Qld: Cardwell; AM O.32614 adult ♂, Qld: Cardwell.

  Secondary source:

   Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [440].
• Pachycephala enidae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [317] [replacement name for Eopsaltria inornata Ramsay, 1874 preoccupied by Pachycephala inornata Gould].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.18571 adult ♂, Qld: Cardwell; AM O.32614 adult ♂, Qld: Cardwell.

Generic Combinations

• Pachycephala griseiceps peninsulae (Hartert, 1899) [see Introduction]. —
  del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Barcelona : Lynx Edicions pp. 903. [266]

Introduction

This subspecies is sometimes placed as a subspecies of Pachycephala (Mattingleya) griseiceps when the latter is split out from the Pachycephala (Mattingleya) simplex group. See Schodde & Mason (1999) for discussion

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

General References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [439]

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