Microeca brunneicauda tormenti 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 : 239

Microeca brunneicauda tormenti Mathews

Microeca brunneicauda tormenti Mathews, 1916a: 58 (Point Torment, North-west Australia).

Now Microeca flavigaster tormenti Mathews, 1916 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 375–377.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 604540 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.01S, 123.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), King Sound, Western Australia, Australia, on 7 April 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1546). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8882) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews did not designate a type or say how many specimens he examined. The above specimen bears a pink Mathews collection label marked ‘‘type’’ in his hand and a green Mathews type label, both of which have his catalog number. It also has Rogers’ field label, a Rothschild type label, and a yellow ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920: pl. 376, lower right fig., opp. p. 63, text p. 71). On p. 71, Mathews described the male of tormenti, noting that the depicted specimen was collected at Point Torment on 7 April 1911, but he failed to add that it was the type. That this was Mathews intended type, there can be no doubt, and because it bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels, it has always been considered the type ; therefore, I hereby designate AMNH 604540 the lectotype of Microeca brunneicauda tormenti . There are in AMNH nine paralectotypes: AMNH 604471 , 604474 , and 604541–604547 (Mathews catalog nos. 8679 and 8883–8890). Even though Point Torment is the only locality given in the original description, AMNH 604474 (8890), female, collected at Stokes Bay, King Sound, on 5 April 1911, is considered a paralectotype because Mathews cataloged it with the others under the locality ‘‘ Pt. Torment’ ’.