Rhipidura flabellifera whitei 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 : 226

Rhipidura flabellifera whitei Mathews

Rhipidura flabellifera whitei Mathews, 1912a: 318 (South Australia).

Now Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri Mathews, 1911 . See Ford, 1981b, Watson and Mayr, 1986: 545, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 481–483.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650236 , unsexed adult, collected at Grange , 34.54S, 138.29E ( USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, in March 1897. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1783) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to the Mathews Collection label, marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. AMNH 650232 (Mathews no. 9648) collected at Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula, on 24 August 1911 and cataloged 7 November 1911 is a paratype. AMNH 650230 (Mathews no. 11650), collected at Outer Harbor (cataloged by Mathews as ‘‘Adelaide’’) on 17 April 1911, was not cataloged by Mathews until 11 April 1912 and is not considered a paratype, as the name was published on 31 January 1912. Mathews (1913a: 184) specified the type locality of whitei as Grange, a suburb of Adelaide and the collecting locality of his holotype.