Gerygone laevigaster (sic) broomei 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 : 178

Gerygone laevigaster (sic) broomei Mathews

Gerygone laevigaster (sic) broomei Mathews, 1912e: 89 (Napier, Broome Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Gerygone levigaster levigaster Gould, 1843 . See Meise, 1931: 362, Mayr, 1986b: 454, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606925 , adult male, collected at Napier Broome Bay , 14.03S, 126.36E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), Western Australia, Australia, on 16 June 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 572). From the Mathews Collection (no. 6530) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Hill’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 385, middle fig., opp. p. 158, text p. 160) and is there confirmed as the type of broomei. There are two paratypes: AMNH 606926 (Mathews no. 6529), male, 15 March 1910 ; and AMNH 606927 (5657), female, 20 February 1910, both collected at Napier Broome Bay by G.F. Hill .