Gymnorhina tibicen longirostris Hartert

Gymnorhina tibicen longirostris Hartert, 1905: 230 (Nullagine, N.W. Australia).

Now Gymnorhina tibicen longirostris Milligan, 1903 . See Hartert, 1920: 454; Amadon, 1951: 20; 1962b: 169; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 545– 550; Dickinson, 2003: 463; Russell and Rowley, 2009: 339–340; and Kearns et al., 2013.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673039, adult male, collected at Nullagine, 21.53S, 120.06E (USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 16 April 1901, by J.T. Tunney (no. R. 92). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the holotype Tunney’s specimen no. R. 92 and noted that he had one additional specimen. Paratype: Nullagine, AMNH 673040, adult male, 16 April 1901, collected by Tunney (no. R. 93).

Hartert inadvertently and by coincidence applied the same name to this population as had been given it by Milligan (1903: 96) earlier. Russell and Rowley (2009: 339–340) included the species tibicen in the broad genus Cracticus on the basis of molecular studies, but I have continued to recognize the conventional genus Gymnorhina pending the results of further molecular investigations.