Smicrornis brevirostris 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 : 165

Smicrornis brevirostris melvillensis Mathews

Smicrornis brevirostris melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 39 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Smicrornis brevirostris flavescens Gould, 1843 . See Mayr, 1986b: 442, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 176–178.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606299 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 11 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2166). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10699) 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. Paratypes at AMNH include specimens collected at Coopers Camp in October–December 1911 and cataloged by Mathews in February and March 1912: AMNH 606300 and 606301 (Mathews nos. 11562 and 11563), AMNH 606303 (11564), AMNH 606304 (10698), and AMNH 606305 (11565). AMNH 606302 is not a paratype, as this specimen was collected on 24 February 1912 but not cataloged by Mathews until 9 July 1912, after the publication of the name on 2 April 1912. It was written into his catalog over an earlier specimen of the same species, which presumably he had exchanged. The latter specimen was collected on 2? October 1911 and, if located, is a paratype.