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
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Gerygone laevigaster
(sic)
mouki
Mathews
Gerygone laevigaster
(sic)
mouki
Mathews, 1912a: 310
(Cairns, North
Queensland
).
Now
Gerygone mouki mouki
Mathews, 1912
. See
Meise, 1931: 354
,
Mayr, 1986b: 456
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 179–180
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606877
, adult female, collected on the ‘‘
Barron River’
’,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
4 June 1911
, by
A.P.
or
F.P. Dodd
(no. 22).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9540) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. The collecting locality on the Dodd label is Barron
River
, which rises on the Atherton Tableland and enters the ocean at Cairns. Dodd’s home was in Kuranda,
16.46S
,
145.37E
(Times Atlas), on the Atherton Tableland; the
holotype
was probably collected near his home, as this is an upland species and would not have been found near the coast. In addition to Dodd’s original label, the specimen also bears a Mathews Collection label with his catalog number 9540 and number 463A (referring to the number of this species in
Mathews, 1908a
), Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1920a
: pl. 384, center right fig., opp. p. 149, text pp. 165, 166), where it is confirmed as the type of
mouki
. This was the only specimen cataloged at that time. AMNH 606878, collected on
22 September 1910
, is the only additional Mathews specimen from the ‘‘Barron River’’ collected before the
31 January 1912
publication of
mouki
. It was not cataloged by Mathews (no. 10277) until
13 February 1912
and is not considered a
paratype
.