Gerygone tenebrosa christophori Mathews, 1912

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 : 177-178

Gerygone tenebrosa christophori Mathews

Gerygone tenebrosa christophori Mathews, 1912a: 311 (Carnarvon, West Australia).

Now Gerygone tenebrosa christophori Mathews, 1912 . See Meise, 1931: 339, Mayr, 1986b: 454, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 187.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606634 , adult male, collected at Carnarvon , 24.53S, 113.40E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 505), Western Australia, Australia, on 15 September 1911, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9632) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Carter’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 382, lower fig., opp. p. 140, text pp. 152, 154), where it is confirmed as the type of christophori. The number ‘‘464A’’ on Carter’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). There are four paratypes: females, AMNH 606635, 28 September, AMNH 606636, 15 September, AMNH 606637 (Mathews no. 9743), 7 August, and AMNH 606638 (9742), 7 August, all collected by Tom Carter at Carnarvon in 1911.