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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Coracina tenuirostris obscura
Mathews
Coracina tenuirostris obscura
Mathews, 1912a: 328
(Cairns,
Queensland
).
Now
Coracina tenuirostris tenuirostris
(Jardine, 1831)
. See
Peters et al., 1960: 186
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 576
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 562693
, adult male, collected at
Cairns
,
16°51′S
,
145°43′E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, in
November 1908
, by Schrader. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 1949) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: The Mathews catalog number of the
type
was cited in the original description. This specimen bears a Mathews Collection label and Mathews and Rothschild
type
labels. The number ‘‘509’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of the species in Mathews’ (1908)
Handlist.
The type locality of this taxon is in an area considered by
Schodde and Mason (1999: 576)
to correspond to a step in a cline of decreasing size from south to north in eastern
Australia
, and they postulate a possible zone of intergradation.