Poecilodryas superciliosa gregori 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 : 259

Poecilodryas superciliosa gregori Mathews

Poecilodryas superciliosa gregori Mathews, 1914b: 93 (Gregory River, Queensland).

Now Poecilodryas cerviniventris (Gould, 1858) . See Mayr, 1986d: 577, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 354–356.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608070 , adult male, collected on the Gregory River , 18.50S, 139.10 ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, on 20 July 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18462) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Of the four specimens Mathews had from the Gregory River, AMNH 608070 is the only one collected on the 20 July 1910, the date of collection of the type given in the original description. Mathews’ catalog number was not given in the original description but is written on the Mathews Collection label; the ‘‘p. 175’’ also written on this label refers to Mathews (1920a: 175). It also bears an original field label, probably by W. McLennan, as the specimen was obtained from W.D.K. Macgillivray, for whom McLennan collected (see Mathews, 1927b: 107). Two additional labels are a green Mathews type label and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 389, opp. p. 191, text pp. 191–192), where its type status is not mentioned.

The three paratypes are: AMNH 608071 , male, Gregory River, 21 July 1910 ; and AMNH 608072 and 608073, females, Fiery Downs, 9 and 19 July 1910, respectively. Macgillivray (1914) reported on McLennan’s 1910–1911 trip to northern Queensland and included his itinerary .