Rhipidura flabellifera subphasiana 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 : 227

Rhipidura flabellifera subphasiana Mathews

Rhipidura flabellifera subphasiana Mathews, 1912a: 319 (North-West Australia (Derby)).

Now Rhipidura phasiana De Vis, 1884 . See Ford, 1981b, Watson and Mayr, 1986: 546, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 479–480.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650370 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.01S, 123.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), King Sound, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 4 April 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1525). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8672) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. All of Rogers’ specimens are labeled Point Torment, King Sound ; Mathews gave Derby, 17.19S, 123.38 (Times Atlas) as the type locality, and that possibly represented Rogers’ base, but the more exact locality is on his labels. Paratypes are AMNH 650369 and 650371–650393 ; these correspond to Mathews’ catalog numbers 8190–8207, 8443, 8611, 8612, 8671, and 8673–8677, except for three numbers that are not matched by specimens in AMNH and were probably exchanged by Mathews. These three specimens were from Point Torment and would be paratypes if discovered: Mathews number 8196, female, collected on 2 January 1911 ; Mathews number 8206, male, collected on 5 January 1911; and Mathews number 8611, male, collected on 12 March 1911. The only specimens actually labeled Derby in AMNH were never in Mathews collection and are not paratypes .

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