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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Ethelornis cantator weatherilli
Mathews
Ethelornis cantator weatherilli
Mathews, 1920a: 162
, 164 (Breakfast Creek, Brisbane,
Queensland
).
Now
Gerygone levigaster cantator
(
Weatherill, 1908
)
. See
Meise, 1931: 364
,
Mayr, 1986b: 455
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 183–184
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606962
, adult male, collected at
Breakfast Creek
,
Brisbane
,
27.28S
,
153.02E
(
Storr, 1984: 180
),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
29 April 1910
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 4882) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description,
Mathews (1920a: 164)
said: ‘‘As the bird figured and described by me is bigger in the wing than typical specimens [
5
nominate
cantator
], it can be called
Ethelornis cantator weatherilli
subsp. nov.
’’ The bird figured and described on p. 162 was a male from Breakfast Creek, Brisbane,
Queensland
,
29 April 1910
. The above specimen is the only male from the Mathews Collection collected on that date. In addition to an original label, a Rothschild Museum label (printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’’), and an AMNH type label, it also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1920a
: pl. 384, lower fig., opp. p. 149, text pp. 162, 164). At the same time as the
holotype
, Mathews cataloged three additional specimens from Breakfast Creek, which are
paratypes
: AMNH 606960 (Mathews no. 4880), male,
March 1910
; AMNH 606961 (4883), immature male,
24 March 1910
; and AMNH 606963 (4881), female,
29 April 1910
. There are two additional Mathews specimens that may be
paratypes
, but they are undated and I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 606959, male, from Windsor, Brisbane; and AMNH 606964, female, from Breakfast Creek.