Sericornis flindersi

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 : 131

Sericornis flindersi S.A. White and Mellor

Sericornis flindersi S.A. White and Mellor, 1913: 165. (Flinders Island (Furneaux Group), Bass Strait).

Now Sericornis frontalis flindersi S.A. White and Mellor, 1913. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 601400, adult male, and AMNH 601401, adult female, collected on Flinders Island, 40.00S, 148.00E (USBGN, 1957b), Furneaux Group, Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, on 21 and 22 November 1912, respectively, by S.A. White and J.W. Mellor (nos. 1072 and 1071). From the Mathews Collection (nos. 15730 and 15729, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description nor was the number of specimens mentioned. These two specimens have been treated as syntypes of flindersi in AMNH and bear AMNH type labels, written by Ernst Mayr. They were both collected in November 1912, the month in which White and Mellor’s specimens were said to have been collected, and are listed in the Mathews catalog as ‘‘co-types’’. The female specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it appeared in Mathews (1922e: pl. 457, opp. p. 31, text p. 32), where type status was not specified ; therefore, no lectotype was designated. Syntypes are also present in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .