Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Alphacincla woodwardi didimus
Mathews
Alphacincla woodwardi didimus
Mathews, 1916b: 83
(McArthur
River
,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Colluricincla woodwardi
Hartert, 1905
.
See
Mayr, 1967: 14
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 463
, and
Boles, 2007: 432–433
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 656877
, immature male, collected at
McArthur Station
,
16.27S
,
136.06E
(
Storr, 1977:110
),
McArthur River
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
5 September 1913
, by
H.G. Barnard. From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave the place and date of collection of the type as
McArthur River
on
5 September 1913
. The above specimen is the only such specimen that came to
AMNH
and is the
holotype
.
It
bears a
Mathews
Collec- tion label, marked ‘‘
Type’
’ by
Mathews
and a
Rothschild
type label.
In
addition there is an
H.L. White Collection
label (no. 145), filled in by
Barnard
, a
Rothschild Collection
label printed ‘‘
Ex.
coll.
G.M. Mathews’
’ and a ‘‘
Figured’
’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1923a
, pl. 480, opp. p. 302, text p. 302), where it is confirmed as the type of
didimus
.
The
wing measurement of
114 mm
given for this specimen is correct, but the specimen is a very worn juvenile.
There
is
one paratype
:
AMNH 656878
, female, collected on the
McArthur River
, on
29 August 1913
, by
Barnard
and also from the
H.L. White Collection
(no. 145).
These
specimens were probably acquired from
White
during
Mathews’
1914 trip to
Australia
; neither was cataloged by Mathews.
[
Colluricincla woodwardi assimilis
Mathews
]
Mathews (1914: 100)
described
assimilis
from ‘‘
Northern Territory
[East]’’ and designated as
type
a specimen collected at Napier Broome Bay, North-west
Australia
on
20 July 1910
. There is no specimen of
Colluricincla
in AMNH collected on
20 July 1910
from either
Northern Territory
or
Western Australia
.