Oriolus flavocinctus kingi Mathews, 1912

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 : 45-46

Oriolus flavocinctus kingi Mathews

Oriolus flavocinctus kingi Mathews, 1912a: 435 (Cairns, Queensland).

Now Oriolus flavocinctus kingi Mathews, 1912 . See Mathews, 1926: 276–280; 1930: 859; Greenway, 1962: 125; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 598–600; Dickinson et al., 2004a: 67; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 718.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671126 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in August 1908, by P. Schrader. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3569) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of kingi as ‘‘ Queensland (Cairns).’’ Paratypes in AMNH are: Bellenden River , AMNH 671119 (Mathews no. 5828), male, 28 December 1899, by collected by E. Olive ; Barron River , AMNH 671123 (5010), unsexed, 4 June 1910 ; Cairns , AMNH 671127–671129 (3590–3592), one male, two females, August 1908, by P. Schrader. Other specimens were either collected after the name was published on 31 January 1912 or were never in the Mathews Collection. AMNH 671119 was purchased from Robinson and was one of the specimens reported on by Robinson and Laverock (1900: 625)

Taxonomy follows Schodde and Mason (1999: 598–600).