Ethelornis cantator weatherilli 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 : 180

Ethelornis cantator weatherilli Mathews

Ethelornis cantator weatherilli Mathews, 1920a: 162 , 164 (Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, Queensland).

Now Gerygone levigaster cantator ( Weatherill, 1908) . See Meise, 1931: 364, Mayr, 1986b: 455, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606962 , adult male, collected at Breakfast Creek , Brisbane , 27.28S, 153.02E ( Storr, 1984: 180), Queensland, Australia, on 29 April 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4882) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews (1920a: 164) said: ‘‘As the bird figured and described by me is bigger in the wing than typical specimens [5 nominate cantator ], it can be called Ethelornis cantator weatherilli subsp. nov. ’’ The bird figured and described on p. 162 was a male from Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, 29 April 1910. The above specimen is the only male from the Mathews Collection collected on that date. In addition to an original label, a Rothschild Museum label (printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’’), and an AMNH type label, it also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 384, lower fig., opp. p. 149, text pp. 162, 164). At the same time as the holotype, Mathews cataloged three additional specimens from Breakfast Creek, which are paratypes: AMNH 606960 (Mathews no. 4880), male, March 1910; AMNH 606961 (4883), immature male, 24 March 1910; and AMNH 606963 (4881), female, 29 April 1910. There are two additional Mathews specimens that may be paratypes, but they are undated and I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 606959, male, from Windsor, Brisbane; and AMNH 606964, female, from Breakfast Creek.