Gerygone chloronota apsleyi 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

Gerygone chloronota apsleyi Mathews

Gerygone chloronota apsleyi Mathews, 1912c: 40 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Gerygone chloronota chloronota Gould, 1843 . See Meise, 1931: 344, Mayr, 1986b: 445, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 190–191.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606741 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 21 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2237). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10637) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and noted ( Mathews, 1912c: 26) that Rogers had already sent him two large collections from Melville Island. These two collections were cataloged by Mathews on 26 February and 20 March 1912. Additional specimens of G. c. apsleyi cataloged at those times are paratypes: AMNH 606742 (Mathews no. 10636), 30 October 1911, and AMNH 606743 (11569), 7 November 1911, both males from Coopers Camp. Specimens from later collections by Rogers on Melville Island would not be paratypes of apsleyi.