Cracticus quoyi jardini Mathews

Cracticus quoyi jardini Mathews, 1912c: 94 (Cape York).

Now Cracticus quoyi jardini Mathews, 1912 . See 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 673191, adult male, collected at Cape York, north Queensland, Australia, on 2 September 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2017). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9785) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of jardini as ‘‘ Queensland (Cape York).’’ Two of the specimens collected by Kemp for Mathews on Cape York were cataloged before the 18 September 1912 publication date of jardini; they are paratypes: Utingu, AMNH 673187 (Mathews no. 12879), male, 13 May 1912, AMNH 673190 (13911), female, 26 June 1912. AMNH 673181 was collected on Cape York by W.R. McLennan on 31 January 1911 and had been in Mathews’ collection. I was unable to find it in Mathews catalog and do not know when he obtained it ; it is possibly a paratype.

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 534–536) and Kearns et al. (2011) for recognition of jardini.