Austrartamus melanops Normani Mathews, 2014

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 : 66-67

Austrartamus melanops Normani Mathews

Austrartamus melanops Normani Mathews, 1923b: 255 (Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria).

Now Artamus cinereus normani ( Mathews, 1923) . See Mathews, 1930: 637; Mayr, 1962b: 164–165; Mees, 1982: 160–165; Storr, 1984: 170; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 565–567; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 307.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665020 , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 29 November 1913, by Robin Kemp (no. 3542). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The original description reads: ‘‘The bird figured and described on p. 246, from Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, can be called Austrartamus melanops Normani , subsp. n. ’’ AMNH 665020, in addition to Kemp’s label, a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ and a Rothschild type label, also bears a Mathews’ ‘‘Figured’’ label. The specimen appears as the middle figure in Mathews (1923b: pl. 477, opp. p. 244), labeled Austrartamus cinereus . Kemp’s label data and the measurements written by Mathews on the reverse of Kemp’s label agree with those published for the type by Mathews (1923b: 246). Specimens collected in 1913 and 1914 by Kemp were only partly cataloged by Mathews; this specimen was not.

See Mees (1982: 160–165) and Schodde and Mason (1999: 565–567) for a review of the complicated history of the nomenclature of A. cinereus and the latter for use of normani as the valid name for the northeast Queensland population.