Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Falcunculus frontatus herbertoni
Mathews
Falcunculus frontatus herbertoni
Mathews, 1912a
(January)
: 376 (Herberton,
Queensland
).
Now
Falcunculus frontatus
(Latham, 1801)
.
See
Mayr, 1953
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 466– 467
, and
Boles, 2007: 409
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 657258
, male on original label [
5
female
plumage], collected at
Herberton
,
17.23S
,
145.23E
(
Storr, 1984: 183
),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
6 November 1910
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9011) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number in the original description, sex not indicated, and gave the range as northern
Queensland
. According to his catalog, this specimen was obtained from [F.P.]
Dodd (1911)
. In addition to an original label, and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, it also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1923b
, pl. 491, lower right fig., opp. p. 2, text p. 4), where it was described as an adult female although not said to be the type. The only additional Mathews specimen from northern
Queensland
is AMNH 657261, collected at Cairns in
January 1885
by T.H. Bowyer Bower but not cataloged by Mathews until
May 1913
(catalog no. 16853), shortly after he received the specimens from Bowyer Bower’s mother. It is not a
paratype
.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 466–467)
considered
F. frontatus
a monotypic species within a superspecies;
Christidis and Boles (2008: 194–195)
retained
F. frontatus
as a polytypic species and noted that molecular analysis was needed.