Pseudogerygone personata johnstoni 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 : 170

Pseudogerygone personata johnstoni Mathews

Pseudogerygone personata johnstoni Mathews, 1916a: 59 (Johnstone River, North Queensland).

Now Gerygone palpebrosa personata Gould, 1866 X G. p. flavida Ramsay, 1877 . See Meise, 1931: 328, Ford, 1978, Mayr, 1986b: 446, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 194–195.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606458 , adult male, collected on the Johnstone River , 17.31S, 146.03E ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, on 25 June 1900, by E. Olive. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4340) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This holotype was the only specimen of this form among a group of specimens from the Alice and Johnstone rivers, collected by Olive in 1900, purchased by Mathews and cataloged by him on 1 March 1910. In addition to Olive’s label, it bears a Rothschild type label and a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ (with his catalog number, although this was not published in the description). The number ‘‘467’’ that appears on this label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). The number ‘‘75’’ that appears on the reverse of Olive’s label is not unique to the specimen; all of his specimens of the species bear this number.

Ford (1978) studied the populations of this warbler along the Queensland coast and documented the wide area of intergradation between personata and flavida , and Schodde and Mason (1999: 195) have followed his arrangement. However, Ford also suggested that one might draw the boundary between the two subspecies in the area where there is a steepening of the intergradation; if this is done, johnstoni becomes a synonym of flavida , the solution followed by Mayr (1986b: 446).