Artamus minor derbyi Mathews

Artamus minor derbyi Mathews, 1912a: 368 (Derby, North-West Australia).

Now Artamus minor derbyi Mathews, 1912 . See Mayr, 1962b: 165; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 570–571; Dickinson, 2003: 465; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 307.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665370, adult male, collected at Derby, 17.18S, 123.38E (Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 6 December 1910, by J.P. Rogers (no. 986). From the Mathews Collection (no. 6325) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of derbyi as ‘‘ North-West Australia and Northern Territory.’’ The following specimens were cataloged by Mathews before 31 January 1912, the date of publication of derbyi, and are considered paratypes: Coongan River, AMNH 665365 (Mathews no. 2490), AMNH 665366 (2491), females, 1 July 1908, collected by F.B.L. Whitlock ; Derby, AMNH 665372 (6326), female, 6 December 1910, collected by Rogers ; Point Torment, AMNH 665374 (8603), female, 6 March 1911, AMNH 665375 (8388), sex?, 17 February 1911, both collected by Rogers ; Napier Broome Bay, AMNH 665376 (5623), female, 12 June 1910, collected by G.F. Hill ; Grant Creek, northeast Wyndham, AMNH 665379 (8967), AMNH 665380 (8968), sex?, 26 May 1911, collected by Conigrave ; Alexandria, AMNH 665383–665386 (2482–2485), one male, two females, one sex?, October 1905 – February 1906, collected by W. Stalker. Other AMNH specimens from within the range of derbyi were either cataloged too late or were never in the Mathews Collection .

CRACTICIDAE

For a recent multilocus coalescent analysis of relationships within the Australo-Papuan Cracticidae, see Kearns et al., 2013: 941–952.