Craspedophora magnifica claudia 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 : 96-97

Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews

Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews, 1917a: 72 (Claudie River, North Queensland).

Now Ptiloris magnificus alberti Elliot, 1871 . See Mathews, 1926: 378–382; Hartert, 1929a: 58; Mayr, 1962d: 188; Gilliard, 1969: 117–121; Cracraft, 1992: 15; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 315–327; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 530–531; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 475.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677613 , adult male, collected on the Claudie River , 12.50S, 143.21E ( USBGN, 1957), northern Queensland, Australia, on 8 October 1913, collector not recorded (no. 36). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews described the adult male and gave the date of collection as 8 October 1913. Mathews had only one such specimen from the Claudie River. No range was given and a description of the female was not included.

This specimen and female AMNH 677614 probably came to Mathews from W. Macgillivray (1918: 211), collected by W.R. Maclennan, on a joint trip to the Claudie River. See also remarks by Mathews (1926: 382).