Petroica goodenovii alexandrae 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 : 245

Petroica goodenovii alexandrae Mathews

Petroica goodenovii alexandrae Mathews, 1912a: 305 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Petroica goodenovii ( Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Mayr, 1986d: 565, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 607697 , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, in May [1905], by Wilfred Stalker (no. 25). From the Mathews Collection (no. 1643) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description but did not indicate how many specimens he had examined. The holotype bears, in addition to Stalker’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Three paratypes, all from Alexandria, and cataloged by Mathews at the same time, came to AMNH: AMNH 607698 (Mathews no. 1651), male?, April 1905, Stalker number 44; AMNH 607699 (1652), female, 28 July 1905; and AMNH 607700 (1655), female, 8 May 1905, Stalker number 25. Ingram (1907: 403) reported on this collection, made by Stalker for his father, Sir William Ingram. The number ‘‘444’’ that appears on these labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).