Epthianura tricolor distincta 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 : 185

Epthianura tricolor distincta Mathews

Epthianura tricolor distincta Mathews, 1912a: 341 (Alexandra, Northern Territory).

Now Epthianura tricolor Gould, 1841 . See Mayr, 1986b: 462, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 341–342.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 577574 , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, on 17 December 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2119) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Stalker’s label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 439, upper left fig., opp. p. 323, text pp. 332–333), where it is confirmed as the type of distincta . There are three paratypes, all collected by Stalker at Alexandria in 1905: AMNH 577575 (2120), male; AMNH 577576 (2122), female; and AMNH 577577 (2121), unsexed. Ingram (1907: 406), in his report on Stalker’s collection, listed these four specimens. Contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681), Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi).