Gerygone magnirostris melvillensis 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 : 173

Gerygone magnirostris melvillensis Mathews

Gerygone magnirostris melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 39 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Gerygone magnirostris magnirostris Gould, 1843 . See Meise, 1931: 333, Mayr, 1986b: 449, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 188–189.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606554 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 1 November 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2326). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10630) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Only the specimens collected by Rogers on Melville Island in 1911 were included in the first two shipments to Mathews (1912c: 26), and these were cataloged by Mathews on 26 February 1912 (Mathews catalog nos. 10630–10635) and on 20 March 1912 (nos. 11566–11568) ; melvillensis was published 2 April 1912. There are eight paratypes at AMNH: AMNH 606555– 606557 , 606559 , and 606566–606569. However, the data entered by Mathews do not always correlate with the data on the labels of Mathews’ specimens of this form now in AMNH .