Monarcha alecto campbelli 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 : 213

Monarcha alecto campbelli Mathews

Monarcha alecto campbelli Mathews, 1912g: 126 (Cape York, North Queensland).

Now Myiagra alecto wardelli (Mathews, 1912) . See Watson et al., 1986c: 524, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 515–517.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 654548 , adult male, collected at Utingu , Cape York , Queensland, Australia, on 5 August 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 1371). From the Mathews Collection (no. 14278) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Kemp’s label, the specimen also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1921b: pl. 409, opp. p. 79, text p. 80), and Mathews (p. 80) confirmed that the figured specimen is the type of campbelli. Paratypes are specimens collected by Kemp on Cape York in July, August, and September 1912: AMNH 654546 (Mathews no. 14163, Kemp no. 1316), male, Peak Point, 24 July ; AMNH 654547 (14279, 1317), female, Peak Point, 24 July ; AMNH 654549 (14870, 1561), female, Utingu, 6 September ; and AMNH 654550 (14689, 1370), female, Utingu, 5 August. AMNH 654549 was also figured in plate 409. Specimens collected on Cape York by Kemp in October and November 1912 were not cataloged until March 1913 and are not considered paratypes .

Utingu was a coconut plantation on Cape York, opposite Possession Island, 10.43S, 142.24E (USBGN, 1957b) ( Jack, 1921: 342, 739).

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