Hallornis leuconotus wongani, LeCroy, 2008

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 : 104

[ Hallornis leuconotus wongani Mathews ]

Mathews (1922e: 83) quoted Alexander (1919: 138): ‘‘On examination of 23 adult males (from W. Australia), I find that they vary very considerably, some being quite bright blue and others dark; moreover, most of the darkest birds are from the most southwesterly part of the range of the species, viz., the Wongan Hills and Yandanooka’’. He then named Hallornis leuconotus wongani , subsp. nov., without designating a type. No Wongan Hills or Yandanooka specimens of this species came to AMNH from the Mathews Collection.