Rhipidura rufifrons inexpectata 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 : 233

Rhipidura rufifrons inexpectata Mathews

Rhipidura rufifrons inexpectata Mathews, 1912a: 319 (Victoria).

Now Rhipidura rufifrons rufifrons (Latham, 1801) . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 554, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 473–475.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650610 , adult male, collected in the Dandenong Range , 37.50S, 145.21E ( USBGN, 1957b), Victoria, Australia, on 1 January 1911, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 8120) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, where the type locality was given only as ‘‘Victoria’’. Mathews (1913a: 185) specified this as the Dandenong Range, the locality at which the holotype was collected. The number ‘‘483’’ that appears on Tregellas’ label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). In addition to Tregellas’ label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are two paratypes: AMNH 650618, male, and AMNH 650619, unsexed, both collected by Tregellas on 1 February 1908 and apparently sharing the number 8119 in Mathews’ catalog. All other specimens of R. rufifrons from Victoria that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection either were collected after the publication of the name or were never in the Mathews Collection.