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
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Myiagra nitida robinsoni
Mathews
Myiagra nitida robinsoni
Mathews, 1912a: 322
(Cooktown, North
Queensland
).
Now
Myiagra cyanoleuca
(Vieillot, 1818)
. See Watson et al., 1986: 523, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 514
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 653231
, [adult male], collected at Cooktown,
15.29S
,
145.15E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, and received from
Herbert C. Robinson. From
the Mathews Collection (no. 9453) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, noting in his catalog that it was the type and was received from Robinson. There is no original label on the specimen, only Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a Mathews collection label, annotated on the reverse ‘‘received with others from Cooktown’’. The number ‘‘490’’ that appears on the latter label is the number of the species in
Mathews (1908a)
. It was cataloged by Mathews in
October 1911
and is the only Robinson specimen cataloged at that time. One can only wonder if this is the second 1899 E. Olive specimen listed by
Robinson and Laverock (1900: 629)
in their account of Olive’s collection (see below under
Piezorhynchus nitidus wardelli
).