Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki 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 : 177

Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki Mathews

Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki Mathews, 1915b: 24 (Port Hedland, Mid-west Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606640 , adult female, collected at Port Hedland , 20.18S, 118.36E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), Western Australia, Australia, on 15 October 1914, by F. Lawson Whitlock for H.L. White. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type was collected at Port Hedland on 15 October 1914. The above holotype is the only Mathews specimen collected on that date. In addition to H.L. White’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are two female paratypes: AMNH 606641 and 606642, both collected at Port Hedland on 7 October 1914 by Whitlock for H.L. White. These specimens were not cataloged by Mathews.

Mayr (1986b: 454) recognized whitlocki ; Schodde and Mason (1999: 187) considered it a synonym of christophori.