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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Gerygone culicivora berneyi
Mathews
Gerygone culicivora berneyi
Mathews, 1912f: 119
(
Queensland
).
Now
Gerygone fusca exsul
Mathews, 1912
. See
Meise, 1931: 361
,
Ford, 1981a
,
Mayr, 1986b: 453
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 185–186
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606915
, adult male, collected at
Tambo
,
24.52S
,
146.13E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
10 August 1881
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 14514) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. This specimen was part of a collection that Mathews received from Robert Collett, Director of ZMO, including specimens collected by Knut Dahl and Carl Lumholtz. This badly worn
Queensland
specimen was most probably collected by Lumholtz, who in
August 1881
collected along an 800-mi route into western
Queensland
(
Whittell, 1954: 457
).
Mathews (1913a: 174)
specified the type locality of
berneyi
as Tambo, the collecting locality of his
holotype
.
Mayr (1986b: 453)
considered this form a synonym of
G. f.
fusca
, but
Ford (1981a)
and
Schodde and Mason (1999: 186)
placed Tambo within the range of
G. f. exsul
.