Rhipidura rufifrons kempi Mathews, 1912

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 : 234

Rhipidura rufifrons kempi Mathews

Rhipidura rufifrons kempi Mathews, 1912a: 320 (Cape York, North Queensland).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons intermedia North, 1902 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 473–475.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650581 , adult male, collected on Cape York , Queensland, Australia, on 6 September 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2041). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9806) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are two paratypes, both collected by Rogers on Cape York: AMNH 650583 (Mathews no. 9808), female, 3 September 1911, and AMNH 650584 (9807), sex?, 5 September 1911. Other Cape York specimens in AMNH either had never been in the Mathews Collection or were collected after the publication of the name. All three of these migrants to Cape York have the whiter belly and more whitish tail tips of R. r. intermedia .