Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 128

Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter

Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter, 1916: 6 (Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia).

Now Sericornis frontalis balstoni Ogilvie-Grant, 1909 . See Mayr, 1986b: 416, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 601350 , adult male, collected on Dirk Hartog Island , 25.50S, 113.03E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 May 1916, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was designated as: ‘‘Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia. In the Austral Avian Museum, Fairoak, Hants’’ (5 Mathews Collection). There are four specimens in AMNH collected by Carter on Dirk Hartog Island in 1916. AMNH 601350 bears a Carter field label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, a Rothschild Collection label, and a Rothschild type label with the name and reference to the description, but not in Hartert’s hand. Carter and Mathews (1917: 589) added no further information on the identification of the type. Because AMNH 601350 has been included in the type collection at AMNH and is indicated as type by Mathews, who presented Carter’s description to the British Ornithologists’ Club (see title of Carter, 1916), I hereby designate AMNH 601350 the lectotype of Sericornis maculatus hartogi . The other three specimens, AMNH 601351, male, 12 May 1916, AMNH 601352, female, 23 May 1916, and AMNH 601353, female, 1(?) October 1916, are paralectotypes.