Wilsonavis fusca richmondi 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 : 181

Wilsonavis fusca richmondi Mathews

Wilsonavis fusca richmondi Mathews, 1915a: 129 (Richmond River, Northern New South Wales).

Now Gerygone mouki richmondi (Mathews, 1915) . See Meise, 1931: 352, Mayr, 1986b: 457, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 179–180.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 606867 , adult male, collected on the Richmond River , 28.53S, 153.35E ( USBGN, 1957b), New South Wales, Australia, in October 1910, by P. Schräder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6512) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description, nor is a specimen indicated as the type in Mathews (1920a: 140–143). However, the above specimen is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Mathews’ hand on his collection label, thus indicating that he intended it for the type. It also bears a Rothschild type label, would have been the type examined by Meise (1931: 352), and was cataloged as the type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. Thus, to avoid confusion when interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate AMNH 606867 the lectotype of Wilsonavis fusca richmondi . There is one paralectotype: AMNH 606869, female, collected on the Richmond River in October 1910 by Schräder. It bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 382, opp. p. 140, text p. 143), where it is not said to be the type. A third Schräder specimen from the Richmond River was never in the Mathews Collection.