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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Colluricincla brunnea caloola
Mathews
Colluricincla brunnea caloola
Mathews, 1913a: 10
(Caloola, Leichhardt
River
,
Gulf
of Carpentaria,
Queensland
).
Now
Colluricincla harmonica brunnea
Gould, 1841
.
See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 458–462
, and
Boles, 2007: 432–433
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 656794
, adult male, collected
14 miles
downriver from
Caloola Station
,
Leichhardt River
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
12 June 1910
, by
William R. McLennan
for
William D.K. Macgillivray. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 17304) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
In
the original description,
Mathews
gave the date and collecting locality of the
type
.
AMNH 656794
is the only
Mathews
specimen with those data
;
it bears the original label, marked ‘‘
Type’
’ by
Mathews
, and both
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type
labels.
The Mathews
catalog number of the
type
was not given in the original description, and the catalog number that appears on the
Rothschild
type
label is incorrectly written as ‘‘17309’’
;
the correct catalog number is 17304, a specimen obtained from
Macgillivray
and cataloged on
2 June 1913
.
Mathews
at this time no longer wrote localities in his catalog
;
however,
Macgillivray (1914: 133)
under
11 June 1910
noted that
McLennan
was camped
14 miles
down the river (north) from
Caloola. Caloola Station
was reached by traveling west from
Donaldson
,
19.52S
,
140.22E
(
Times Atlas
), to the
Leichhardt
River
.
Mathews cataloged a second male specimen at no. 17303 with a date of
22 July 1910
, also obtained from Macgillivray and also without a locality in the catalog. From
Macgillivray (1914: 134–135)
, it appears that McLennan was moving north on the Gregory
River
at this time.
Macgillivray (1914: 173)
noted the following: ‘‘
Colluricincla brunnea
. Brown Shrike-Thrush.–Mr. M’Lennan collected
two specimens
in the
Gulf
country, both of which Mr. Mathews refers to this species. They differ very considerably from one another, and until a larger series of skins is examined and more observations made in a state of nature I would not consider the matter settled.’’ This specimen is a
paratype
of
caloola
and is now
AMNH 656723
, [immature] male, collected at Fiery Downs, Gregory
River
, on
22 July 1910
by McLennan.
Colluricincla brunnea tachycrypta
Rothschild