Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Chlamydera nuchalis yorki
Mayr and Jennings
Chlamydera nuchalis yorki
Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 14
(Utingu,
Cape
York
).
Now
Chlamydera nuchalis orientalis
Gould, 1879
. See
Mayr, 1962c: 180
;
Gilliard, 1969: 371–373
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 636–637
;
Dickinson, 2003: 428
; and
Frith and Frith, 2004: 424–426
;
2009a: 403
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 679231
, adult female, collected at
Utingu
,
Cape York
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
22 June 1912
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 1103).
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr and Jennings cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
and gave wing measurements for the following
Cape
York
specimens: adult and subadult males, five; immature males, one; adult females, five; immature females, four. They noted that the population from Cairns and Cooktown was intermediate between
yorki
and
orientalis
, and thus not included in
yorki
. Because Mayr and Jennings thought that many of the specimens were incorrectly sexed, they wrote their determination of sex on the reverse of the label. In the following list of
paratypes
, the sex assigned the specimens by Mayr and Jennings is listed first, followed by the sex given by the collector in brackets.
Paratypes
of
yorki
: Watson River,
AMNH
679222
, adult male [male],
AMNH 679223
, immature female [female],
22–26 June 1914
, probably collected by W.R. Maclennan; Cable Station,
Cape
York
,
AMNH 679224
, immature male [male],
30 April 1913
, collected by Robin Kemp; Utingu,
Cape
York
,
AMNH 679225
, adult male [male],
AMNH 679226
, immature female [male?],
AMNH 679227
, adult female [male],
AMNH 679228
, adult male [male],
AMNH 679229
, subadult male [male],
AMNH 679230
, adult female [female],
AMNH 679232
, adult female [female],
AMNH 679233
, immature female [female],
AMNH 679234
, immature female [female?], all collected between
22 June and 28 September 1912
, by Robin Kemp. One male and one adult female listed by Mayr and Jennings are not among the
paratypes
above. A possible
paratype
is AMNH 679221, male, Karumba, Norman River,
19 April 1914
, collected by Robin Kemp.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 636–637)
did not recognize
yorki
and subsequent authors have agreed.
According to
Jack (1921: 342
, 749) Utingu was a coconut plantation opposite Possession Island,
10.43S
,
142.24E
(USBGN, 1957).