Cracticus mentalis kempi Mathews

Cracticus mentalis kempi Mathews, 1912c: 95 (Cape York).

Now Cracticus mentalis kempi Mathews, 1912 . See Mathews, 1923b: 398–400; Amadon, 1951: 4; 1962b: 166; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 542; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673566, adult male, collected at Skull Creek, 20 miles south of Cape York (as on label), Queensland, Australia, in June 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 1048). From the Mathews Collection (no. 13154) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and noted that he ‘‘had now received a series of birds from [Cape York].’’ Mathews (1923b: 400) added that Robin Kemp collected the series for him. C. m. kempi was published on 18 September 1912, and only those specimens collected before that date can be included in the type series. It appears that Mathews had a series of two! All specimens in AMNH that Kemp collected on Cape York, other than the holotype and paratype, were collected after the publication of the name. The paratype is: AMNH 673564 (Mathews no. 13153), adult male, collected at Skull Creek in June 1912 by Kemp (no. 1047).