Cisticola exilis parryi 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 parryi Mathews

Cisticola exilis parryi Mathews, 1912d: 77 (Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia).

Now Cisticola exilis alexandrae Mathews, 1912 . See Lynes, 1930: 195–197, 655, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 711–712.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 593091 , adult male, collected on Parry Creek , 15.32S, 128.09E ( USBGN, 1957b), 5 mi west of Trig. Station Headquarters, alt. 10 ft, East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 29 January 1909, by John P. Rogers (no. 595). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2147) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. He did not indicate how many specimens he had, but he cataloged 11 Parry Creek specimens, including the type, all of which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The 10 paratypes are: AMNH 593092–593101 (Mathews nos. 2140–2146, 2148–2150), all collected by Rogers between 9 November 1908 and 9 January 1909.