Cincloramphus mathewsi vigorsi Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 21

[ Cincloramphus mathewsi vigorsi Mathews ]

Mathews (1912a: 339) provided Cincloramphus mathewsi vigorsi as a new name for Anthus rufescens Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 , preoccupied by Anthus rufescens Temminck, 1820 . As such vigorsi has the same type as Anthus rufescens Vigors and Horsfield. Mathews (1912a: 339) did not designate a type for vigorsi; nevertheless, AMNH 587797, adult male, collected at Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, in November 1890, by T. Thorpe bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels that are marked with Mathews’ catalog number 7975 and the name Cincloramphus mathewsi vigorsi . I can find no evidence that this name was ever introduced as anything other than a replacement name, and the indication that the specimen is a type is evidently an error. I have retained this specimen in the type collection because it bears the type labels and was cataloged as a type at AMNH, but I have added another label to indicate its status.

Because Anthus rufescens Vigors and Horsfield is a junior primary homonym of Anthus rufescens Temminck , it is permanently invalid (ICZN, 1999: 59, Art. 57.2), and C. rufescens mathewsi Iredale, 1911 , becomes the next available name.