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
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Rhipidura flabellifera harterti
Mathews
Rhipidura flabellifera harterti
Mathews, 1912a: 319
(
Queensland
(Inkerman)).
Now
Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri
Mathews, 1911
. See
Ford, 1981b: 130
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 481–483
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 650287
, unsexed adult, collected at
Inkerman
,
19.45S
,
147.29E
(
Storr, 1984: 183
),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
11 April 1907
, by Wilfred Stalker. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 1781) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description; it is the only
Queensland
specimen entered in the catalog at that point.
Ford (1981b: 130)
determined that this type was a wintering specimen of
alisteri
. Mathews gave the range of
harterti
as ‘‘Mid Queensland’’, and I did not find other mid-Queensland specimens that had been in the Mathews Collection prior to the description. A specimen from Gracemere, collected in 1881, was obtained from Collett, but not cataloged until
November 1912
, after the publication of
harterti
in January.
The number ‘‘476’’ on Stalker’s label refers to the number of this species in
Mathews (1908a)
; his ‘‘Inkerman’’ refers to a cattle station where Stalker collected for Sir William Ingram. Collingwood
Ingram (1908: 469)
reported on this collection and listed this single specimen as
Rhipidura albiscapa
. Stalker’s given name was Wilfred (
Ogilvie-Grant, 1915
: vi), contra
Ingram (1908)
and
Whittell (1954: 680–681)
.