Setosura setosa macgillivrayi 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 : 220

Setosura setosa macgillivrayi Mathews Setosura setosa davidi Mathews

Setosura setosa macgillivrayi Mathews, 1916c: 90 (Leichhardt River, Queensland).

Now Rhipidura rufiventris isura Gould, 1841 . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 538, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 486–487.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 651264 , adult male, collected at Fiery Downs , 18.41S, 139.29E ( USBGN, 1957b), Leichhardt River , Queensland, Australia, on 19 July 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 17267) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews listed as his type a specimen collected on the Leichhardt River, Queensland, on 19 July 1910. He had two such specimens. AMNH 651264 bears, in addition to the field label, a Mathews collection label with the Mathews catalog number (although this was not mentioned in the original description) and ‘‘Type of macgillivrayi’’ in Mathews’ hand. It has both Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1921b: pl. 403, lower fig., opp. p. 26, text pp. 27, 31). In the text on p. 27, the figured male is described and noted to be the type of macgillivrayi , thus designating it the lectotype, even though it is said to have been collected on 19 June rather than in July. AMNH 651265 (Mathews no. 17266), female, collected at Fiery Downs, Leichhardt River, on 19 July 1910, is a paralectotype.

Mathews (1921b: 31) introduced the name Setosura setosa davidi as a nomen novum for S. s. macgillivrayi ‘‘as there is a prior Rhipidura macgillivrayi Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) , p. 789, 1882’’. Rhipidura macgillivrayi Sharpe, 1881 (not 1882, see Duncan, 1937: 73) is a synonym of Rhipidura cervina Ramsay, 1879 ( Sharpe, 1901: 253), considered a subspecies of R. flabellifera by Mathews (1921b: 16). Because Mathews described and maintained macgillivrayi in the genus Setosura , it was not preoccupied, and there was no need for a replacement name! Both are now included in the genus Rhipidura , and the name davidi is available for Mathews’ macgillivrayi , should it be needed.

Mathews obtained these two specimens from W.D.K. Macgillivray, collected for him by William McLennan ( Whittell, 1954: 476– 477) and reported on by Macgillivray (1914).