Leucocirca leucophrys carteri 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 : 218

Leucocirca leucophrys carteri Mathews

Leucocirca leucophrys carteri Mathews, 1921b: 41 (Broome Hill) .

Now Rhipidura leucophrys leucophrys (Latham, 1801) . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 537, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 488–489.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651525 , adult male, collected at Broomehill (5 Broome Hill), 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, Australia, on 25 June 1906, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1915) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave the date of collection of the type in the original description; a single AMNH specimen was collected by Carter on that date. This specimen does not bear a Mathews type label, but Carter’s original field label is marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ in Mathews’ hand. It bears a Rothschild type label with Mathews’ catalog number ‘‘1815’’ on it, which corresponds in his catalog to this specimen. A third label is a Rothschild Collection label, printed ‘‘ Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’ ’.

Mathews (1921b: 41) gave the range of carteri as ‘‘ South-west Australia’ ’. Paratypes are: AMNH 651523 (Mathews no. 1814), male, collected at Albany on 3 May 1907 ; AMNH 651528 (1825), female, collected at North Beach, Perth on 11 May 1907 ; and AMNH 651529 (1819), [immature], collected at Perth in February 1908. There are four probable paratypes, all collected by Carter early enough, even though I was unable to find them in Mathews’ catalog to determine whether he had them in hand for description: Dirk Hartog Island , AMNH 651522 , male, 15 October 1916 ; and Broomehill , AMNH 651524 , male, 2 February 1911, AMNH 651526 , male, 18 June 1910, and AMNH 651527 , male immature, 27 October 1910 .