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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
313
1
287
journal article
0003-0090
Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki
Mathews
Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki
Mathews, 1915b: 24
(Port Hedland, Mid-west
Australia
).
Now
Gerygone tenebrosa christophori
Mathews, 1912
. See
Meise, 1931: 339
,
Mayr, 1986b: 454
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 187
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606640
, adult female, collected at
Port Hedland
,
20.18S
,
118.36E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512
),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
15 October 1914
, by
F. Lawson Whitlock
for
H.L. White. From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Mathews said that the type was collected at Port Hedland on
15 October 1914
. The above
holotype
is the only Mathews specimen collected on that date. In addition to H.L. White’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are
two female
paratypes
: AMNH 606641 and 606642, both collected at Port Hedland on
7 October 1914
by Whitlock for H.L. White. These specimens were not cataloged by Mathews.
Mayr (1986b: 454)
recognized
whitlocki
;
Schodde and Mason (1999: 187)
considered it a synonym of
christophori
.