Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Oriolus sagittatus blaauwi
Mathews
Oriolus sagittatus blaauwi
Mathews, 1912a: 435
(North-West
Australia
(Napier Broome Bay)).
Now
Oriolus sagittatus affinis
Gould, 1848
. See
Mathews, 1926: 266–274
;
Mathews, 1930: 860
;
Greenway, 1962: 124
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 601–603
;
Dickinson, 2003: 487
; and
Walther and Jones, 2008: 717–718
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 670998
, adult male, collected at
Napier Broome Bay
,
14.02S
,
126.37E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
23 July 1910
, by
G.F. Hill
(no. 637).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 6217) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North-
Western Australia
.’’
The
holotype
bears in addition to
Hill’s
original label,
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels and a ‘‘
Figured’
’ label indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1926
: pl. 578, opp. p. 266, text pp. 266–274) and confirmed as the type of
blaauwi
on page 268.
Paratypes
in
AMNH
:
Point Torment
,
King Sound
,
AMNH 670996
(Mathews no. 8409), male,
AMNH 670997
(8408), female,
14–16 February 1911
, collected by
J.P. Rogers
;
Parrys Creek
,
5 mi
west of
Trig
point HJ9,
east Kimberley
,
AMNH 671000
(3573), male,
AMNH 671001–671003
(3570– 3572), females,
28 August 1908
, collected by
J.P. Rogers. Other
AMNH
specimens from northwest
Australia
were either never in the
Mathews Collection
or were cataloged after the
31 January 1912
publication date of
blaauwi
.