Sericornis magnirostris bunya Mathews

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 : 137

Sericornis magnirostris bunya Mathews

Sericornis magnirostris bunya Mathews, 1920d: 106 (Bunya Mts. Queensland).

Now Sericornis magnirostra magnirostra (Gould, 1838) . See Mayr, 1986b: 422, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 173–175.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601606 , unsexed, collected in the Bunya Mountains , 26.52S, 151.35E ( Storr, 1984: 180), Queensland, Australia, on 30 September 1919, by J.B. Cleland (no. 491). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews, in the original description, said that the type was a specimen collected by Cleland in the Bunya Mountains on 30 September 1919. This specimen is the only one with these data that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It bears a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘ Type of S.m. bunya Math.’’, and Rothschild Collection and type labels.