Artamus leucorhynchus harterti Mathews

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, 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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 62

Artamus leucorhynchus harterti Mathews

Artamus leucorhynchus harterti Mathews, 1912a: 367 (North-West Australia).

Now Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis Gould, 1842 . See Stresemann, 1913a: 292; Hartert, 1920: 455; Mathews, 1923b: 217–224; 1930: 635; Mayr, 1962b: 162; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 561–562; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 305.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 664722 , adult female, collected at Parry Creek, 15.36S, 128.17E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), 5 miles west of Trig. Stn. HJ 9, East Kimberley , Western Australia, on 16 November 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 352). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2388) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of harterti as ‘‘ North-West Australia and Northern Territory.’’ The following specimens were in Mathews’ possession before 31 January 1912, the date of publication of harterti, and are considered paratypes: Point Torment, AMNH 664715 , 664716 , 664726 , 664727 (Mathews nos. 8392–8395), two males, one female, one sex?, 21 February 1911, collected by J.P. Rogers ; Parry Creek , AMNH 664717– 664721 , 664723 , 664724 , 664725 (2387, 2389– 2395), five males, two females, one sex?, 16 November 1908, 2 February 1908, 22 February 1911, collected by J.P. Rogers ; Alexandria, AMNH 664712 , 664713 (2396, 2397) male, female, January 1906, 30 October 1905, collected by W. Stalker. AMNH 664707 , male, collected at Port Darwin , Northern Territory, on 11 June 1894, by Knut Dahl, was not cataloged by Mathews until 28 February 1912, after the publication of harterti, and is not accepted as a paratype .