Mirafra javanica forresti Mayr and McEvey

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 5

Mirafra javanica forresti Mayr and McEvey

Mirafra javanica forresti Mayr and McEvey, 1960: 166 (Forrest River, N.W.A.).

Now Mirafra javanica forresti Mayr and McEvey, 1960 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 715, 717.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556386 , adult male, collected on the Forrest River , Western Australia, Australia, on 31 August 1911, by Charles Price Conigrave (no. 85). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was given in the original description. No exact location along the river is recorded on the label, but an account of the trip ( Anonymous, 1912: 268) provides further information: ‘‘Forrest River was reached about 20 miles from its mouth, where it had been arranged that a supply boat should call about the middle of August. The boat duly put in an appearance, and, re­stocked with provisions, the party set out from the river at the end of August.’’

Johnstone (2001: 88) recognized only the subspecies M. j. horsfieldii in Western Australia.