Cincloramphus mathewsi horsfieldi 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 : 20

Cincloramphus mathewsi horsfieldi Mathews

Cincloramphus mathewsi horsfieldi Mathews, 1912a: 339 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Cincloramphus mathewsi Iredale, 1911 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 45, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 706–707, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 580.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 587784 , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, on 2 January 1906 (incorrectly dated 1905), by Wilfred Stalker (no. 106). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2101) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Stalker’s collection around Alexandria was made for Sir William Ingram (see Whittell, 1954: 680) and reported on by Collingwood Ingram (1907), from whom Mathews acquired the collection ( Mathews, 1942: 51). The three specimens listed in Ingram’s (1907: 406) report came to AMNH. There are two paratypes: AMNH 587785 (Mathews no. 2102, Stalker no. 106), male, 20 January 1906; and AMNH 587827 (2103, 30), May [1905]. This latter specimen was originally sexed as s, but this has been crossed out and ♀ added in pencil, which appears to be correct, as the specimen is much smaller than the other males.

The number ‘‘539’’ that appears in pencil on the reverse of Stalker’s label refers to the number of the species in Mathews (1908a). Stalker was listed as William Stalker in Ingram (1907) and in Whittell (1954: 680– 681); his correct name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi).