Coracina novaehollandiae westralensis Mathews

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 : 58

Coracina novaehollandiae westralensis Mathews

Coracina novaehollandiae westralensis Mathews,

1912a: 326 (Wilson’s Inlet, South­West Australia).

Now Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham,

1802). See Browning and Monroe, 1991: 386, Schod­

de and Mason, 1999: 578, 580, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 10, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 34.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561556 , adult male, collected at Wilson Inlet , 35°00′S, 117°24′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 422), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 June 1910, by F.B. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5452) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the type and the range of westralensis as ‘‘West Australia’’ was included in the original description, but the number of specimens was not. The number 760 following the citation in Peters et al. (1960: 172) is the number of this taxon in Mathews’ (1912a) Reference–list in which the description appeared.