Submyiagra ferrocyanea cinerea 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 : 209

Submyiagra ferrocyanea cinerea Mathews

Submyiagra ferrocyanea cinerea Mathews, 1928a: 373 (Bougainville Island).

Now Myiagra ferrocyanea cinerea (Mathews, 1928) . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 317.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 653160 , female, collected at Buin , 06.52S, 155.42E (Times Atlas), Bougainville Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 January 1908, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3755). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Although Mathews failed to state in the original description that the type of cinerea was in the Rothschild Collection, types for all of the other names introduced in the same publication were so noted. The same is undoubtedly true for cinerea , as AMNH 653160 is the only specimen in AMNH collected by Meek on 18 January 1908, the date given for the type by Mathews in the original description. It had never been in the Mathews Collection, even though Rothschild had purchased the Mathews Collection before the description of cinerea was published. It is marked ‘‘cinerea Type’’ in Mathews’ hand and bears a Rothschild type label in addition to Meek’s field label and the Rothschild Museum label.

Paratypes are other specimens from the Rothschild Collection collected by Meek on Bougainville: Harawa, 1907, AMNH 653153– 653155 ; 1904, AMNH 653156–653159 .