Gerygone laevigaster (sic) mouki 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

Gerygone laevigaster (sic) mouki Mathews

Gerygone laevigaster (sic) mouki Mathews, 1912a: 310 (Cairns, North Queensland).

Now Gerygone mouki mouki Mathews, 1912 . See Meise, 1931: 354, Mayr, 1986b: 456, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 179–180.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606877 , adult female, collected on the ‘‘ Barron River’ ’, Queensland, Australia, on 4 June 1911, by A.P. or F.P. Dodd (no. 22). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9540) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The collecting locality on the Dodd label is Barron River, which rises on the Atherton Tableland and enters the ocean at Cairns. Dodd’s home was in Kuranda, 16.46S, 145.37E (Times Atlas), on the Atherton Tableland; the holotype was probably collected near his home, as this is an upland species and would not have been found near the coast. In addition to Dodd’s original label, the specimen also bears a Mathews Collection label with his catalog number 9540 and number 463A (referring to the number of this species in Mathews, 1908a), Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 384, center right fig., opp. p. 149, text pp. 165, 166), where it is confirmed as the type of mouki . This was the only specimen cataloged at that time. AMNH 606878, collected on 22 September 1910, is the only additional Mathews specimen from the ‘‘Barron River’’ collected before the 31 January 1912 publication of mouki . It was not cataloged by Mathews (no. 10277) until 13 February 1912 and is not considered a paratype.