Sericornis beccarii dubius Mayr, 1937

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 : 133

Sericornis beccarii dubius Mayr

Sericornis beccarii dubius Mayr, 1937: 9 (‘‘ Cape York’’, N. Queensland).

Now Sericornis magnirostra dubius Mayr, 1937 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 173–175.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450834 , adult male, collected at the Chester River , Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia, on 9 July 1898, by Alfred S. Meek (no. 1905). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. His type series comprised two males and one female. The two paratypes are AMNH 601539, male, and AMNH 601540, female.

Meek’s exact collecting locality on Cape York was not certainly known until Parker (1966) fixed the locality as the Chester River (13.42S, 143.33E). In del Hoyo et al. (2007: 584–585), the subspecies dubia is included in the species S. beccarii .