Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Gerygone culicivora wayensis
Mathews
Gerygone culicivora wayensis
Mathews, 1912a: 308
(Mid Westralia (Lake Way)).
Now
Gerygone fusca fusca
(Gould, 1838)
. See
Meise, 1931: 358
,
Ford, 1981a
,
Mayr, 1986b: 453
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 185–186
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606909
, adult female, collected at
Lake Way
,
26.50S
,
120.25E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509
),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
24 June 1909
, by
F.L. Whitlock. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 1727) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. In addition to Whitlock’s field label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Mathews cataloged only
one specimen
, a migrant individual of nominate
G. fusca
(
Ford, 1981a
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 186
).
Whitlock (1910)
published the results of his 1909 expedition to the East Murchison district, where the
type
of
wayensis
was collected.