Coracina melanops tasmanica 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 : 59

Coracina melanops tasmanica Mathews

Coracina melanops tasmanica Mathews, 1911: 100

(Tasmania).

Now Coracina novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Gmelin, 1789) . See Mathews, 1912a: 326 (note), and

Schodde and Mason, 1999: 578.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561779 , unsexed, collected in Tasmania, no date, by Richard H.W. Leach. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4366) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert wrote ‘‘ϐ’’ on the Rothschild type label. It bears a Mathews Collection label, with the original field data, and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Mathews catalog number of the type was cited in the original description. There are three paratypes (additional Leach specimens from Tasmania, cataloged at the same time by Mathews) now in AMNH: AMNH 561780 (Mathews no. 4369), 561783 (Mathews no. 4365), and 561784 (Mathews no. 4364). One of these specimens is dated December [18]62. Whittell (1954: 417) said that Leach collected in Tasmania in 1863 and gave his collection to Mathews in ‘‘about 1908’’. According to the date in the catalog, Mathews entered them in 1910.

The number 505 on the Mathews label refers to the species number in Mathews’ (1908) Handlist.