Pseudogerygone personata watsoni 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 : 169-170

Pseudogerygone personata watsoni Mathews

Pseudogerygone personata watsoni Mathews, 1917a: 71 (Watson River, North Queensland).

Now Gerygone palpebrosa personata Gould, 1866 . See Meise, 1931: 329, Ford, 1978, Mayr, 1986b: 446, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 194–195.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606473 , adult male, collected on the Watson River , 13.20S, 141.50E ( Storr, 1984: 189), northern Queensland, Australia, on 24 June 1914, by or for W.D.K. Macgillivray. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This single specimen from the Watson River came to AMNH from the Mathews Collection. In addition to the collector’s (unsigned) and the Rothschild Collection labels, it bears a Rothschild type label. Mathews did not enter it in his catalog, but at no. 18508 he entered a specimen of ‘‘ Psephotellus chrysopterygius ’’, which became the type of his Psephotellus chrysopterygius nova (5 Psephotus c. chyrsopterygius), and noted that it was collected on the Watson River by Macgillivray or for Macgillivray by W.R. McLennan (not F.L. Whitlock as per Greenway, 1978: 100). A comparison of the handwriting on the field label of this specimen with that on the label of AMNH 606473 shows that they were written by the same collector.