Cisticola exilis tormenti 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 : 44

Cisticola exilis tormenti Mathews

Cisticola exilis tormenti Mathews, 1912d: 77 (Point Torment, North-west Australia).

Now Cisticola exilis alexandrae Mathews, 1912 . See Lynes, 1930: 195–197, 669, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 711–712.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 593102 , adult female, collected at Point Torment , 17.01S, 123.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), King Sound, Western Australia, Australia, on 4 April 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 1521). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8713) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number for the holotype in the original description. In addition to the Rogers label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it served as the model for Mathews (1922a: pl. 443, top fig., opp. p. 364, text pp. 365–366), where the figured female is confirmed as the type of tormenti. Mathews did not say how many specimens he examined, but he cataloged three specimens in addition to the holotype from Point Torment. These paratypes are AMNH 593103–593105 (Mathews nos. 8712, 8714, and 8715).