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
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Sericornis magnirostris howei
Mathews
Sericornis magnirostris howei
Mathews, 1912a: 355
(
Victoria
).
Now
Sericornis magnirostra howei
Mathews, 1912
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 173–175
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 601598
, unsexed, collected in
Gippsland
, southeastern
Victoria
,
Australia
, in
July 1886
, by
Edwin Ashby
(no. 219).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 2250) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description
;
it was the only
Victoria
specimen cataloged at that time and is the only
Mathews
specimen of this species from
Victoria
that came to
AMNH
.
Mathews (1913a: 221)
specified the type locality by citing the collecting locality of the
holotype
.