Cracticus quoyi tunneyi Hartert

Cracticus quoyi tunneyi Hartert, 1905: 228 (Alligator River, Northern Territory).

Now Cracticus quoyi spaldingi Ramsay, 1878 . See Hartert, 1920: 455; Amadon, 1951: 12; 1962b: 168; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 534–536; Dickinson, 2003: 463; Russell and Rowley, 2009: 337; and Kearns et al., 2011.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673163, adult male, collected on the [South] Alligator River, 12.15S, 132.24E (USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, on 25 September 1903, by J.T. Tunney (no. 1603). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Tunney’s number 1603 for the holotype. The two paratypes are: [South] Alligator River, AMNH 673164 (Tunney no. 1602), AMNH 673165 (1601), females, 10 October and 25 September 1903, 16 and 35 miles from the coast, respectively.