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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Ethelornis cairnsensis robini
Mathews
Ethelornis cairnsensis robini
Mathews, 1920a: 151
(
Cape
York
, North
Queensland
).
Now
Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis
Mathews, 1912
. See
Meise, 1931: 333
,
Mayr, 1986b: 449
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 188–189
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 606539
, adult female, collected at
Piara
,
10.44S
,
142.34E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
Cape York
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
12 August 1913
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 3141).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 17930) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description.
Meise (1931: 333)
designated Kemp’s specimen number 3141 as the
lectotype
. Despite a note to this effect by Meise on the reverse of the Rothschild label, the specimen had not previously been put in the type collection. There are
three paralectotypes
:
AMNH 606536
, male from
Thursday Island
(this is apparently the specimen mentioned by Mathews in which Kemp marked the iris ‘‘black’’; however, it is not immature)
;
and
AMNH 606537
, female?, and
AMNH 606538
, sex?, both collected at the
Cable Station
,
Cape
York
, by
Kemp
on
15 February 1913
.
They
were not entered in
Mathews’
catalog
.
Piara, or ‘‘Paira’’ as it is sometimes spelled, was the home of Bert Vidgen in Muddy Bay where many early collectors on
Cape
York
stayed.