TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE
Author
LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
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Petrochelidon nigricans distinguenda
Mathews
Petrochelidon nigricans distinguenda
Mathews, 1912a: 301
(West
Australia
(East Murchison)).
Now
Petrochelidon nigricans neglecta
Mathews, 1912
. See
Peters, 1960b: 119
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 676
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 560763
, adult male, collected in the
East Murchison district
,
Western Australia
, on
22 October 1909
, by
F.B. Lawson Whitlock. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3892) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: The Mathews Collection number was given in the original description. In addition to the field label, this specimen bears the Mathews and Rothschild
type
labels. Mathews did not state how many specimens he had.
Whitlock (1910: 186)
gave his itinerary in the East Murchison area. On 22 October he would have been at Milly Pool,
20 mi
northwest of Wiluna (
26°37′S
,
120°12′E
[Times Atlas]) and ‘‘on the stock route from Peak Hill on the Gascoyne and Ashburton Rivers’’. He arrived at Wiluna on 17 September and left Milly Pool on
6 November 1909
.