Cracticus nigrogularis inkermani Mathews

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 71-72

Cracticus nigrogularis inkermani Mathews

Cracticus nigrogularis inkermani Mathews, 1912a: 374 (Inkerman, Queensland).

Now Cracticus nigrogularis nigrogularis (Gould, 1837) . See Amadon, 1951: 8–9; 1962b: 167–168; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 543–544, Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 338– 339.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673405 , adult male, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 14 March 1907, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 305). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2584) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of inkermani as ‘‘ Queensland.’’ The following specimens are considered paratypes: Inkerman , AMNH 673404 (Mathews no. 2586), immature male, 7 March 1907, AMNH 673406 (2585), female, 14 March 1907, both collected by Stalker ; Mackay , AMNH 673411 (6468), sex?, undated, purchased from Gerrard, and cataloged 4 February 1911. The number ‘‘655’’ that occurs on Stalker’s labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Other specimens in AMNH from ‘‘ Queensland’ ’ were never in the Mathews Collection or were collected after the 31 January 1912 publication date of inkermani .

Stalker’s collection at the Inkerman Station was made for Sir William Ingram and reported on by his son, Collingwood Ingram (1908b: 458–481), where the three specimens were listed as Cracticus picatus (p. 472). The collection was purchased by Mathews.