Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Strepera versicolor vieilloti
Mathews
Strepera versicolor vieilloti
Mathews, 1912a: 444
(
Victoria
)
.
Now
Strepera versicolor versicolor
(Latham, 1801)
. See Amadon, 1951: 29; 1962b: 171–172;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 557–560
;
Dickinson, 2003: 464
; and
Russell and Rowley, 2009: 341– 342
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 673716
, adult female, collected at
Olinda
,
37.51S
,
145.22E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Victoria
,
Australia
, on
14 April 1911
, by
Thomas Tregellas
(no. 878).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9044) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
and gave the range as ‘‘
Victoria
,
South Australia
.’’ I was unable to decide which, if any, of Mathews’ specimens from
South Australia
he considered to be
vieilloti
, especially as he accepted Sharpe’s
S. v. intermedia
(
Mathews, 1912a: 445
)
and had labeled many of his specimens as
intermedia
. The following two specimens from
Victoria
may be considered
paratypes
:
AMNH 673715
(Mathews no. 8057), male (not sexed by collector), Olinda, undated;
AMNH 673725
(8056), female (not sexed by collector), Healesville, undated (both cataloged by Mathews on
1 March 1911
, before the publication of
vieilloti
). AMNH 673728 (5694), sex?, Gippsland, undated, is not considered a
paratype
. While the catalog number should indicate an early acquisition of the specimen, this is a specimen written into a space in the catalog that had been occupied by another specimen that Mathews no longer possessed (had exchanged?), and there is no indication when Mathews cataloged it! Other AMNH specimens from
Victoria
either had never been in Mathews’ collection, were labeled
intermedia
by Mathews, or were collected or cataloged after the
31 January 1912
publication date of
vieilloti
.