Rhipidura flabellifera buchanani 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 buchanani Mathews

Rhipidura flabellifera buchanani Mathews, 1912e: 90 (Buchanan Island, Northern Territory).

Now Rhipidura phasiana De Vis, 1884 . See Ford, 1981b: 133, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 479–480.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650400 , adult male, collected on Buchanan Islet , 11.49S, 130.39E ( Storr, 1977: 106), entrance to Apsley Strait, off Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 28 February 1912, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2973). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12468) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ field label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The range of this form was given as Buchanan Island. There are 13 specimens, in addition to the holotype, collected by Rogers during February to May 1912 on Buchanan Island. I found 10 of these in Mathews catalog, all cataloged before the publication date of 18 September 1912: AMNH 650395 (13401), 650397 (13402), 650398 (13406), 650399 (13405), 650401 (13407), 650402 (13404), 650403 (13400), 650404 (13403), 650406 (12466), and 650407 (12467). I did not find AMNH 650396, 650405, and 650408 in Mathews’ catalog, but I consider all of this series to be paratypes, especially in light of Mathews’ frequent failure to enter into his catalog multiple specimens bearing the same data.