Ethelornis cairnsensis robini 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 : 173

Ethelornis cairnsensis robini Mathews

Ethelornis cairnsensis robini Mathews, 1920a: 151 (Cape York, North Queensland).

Now Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, 1912 . See Meise, 1931: 333, Mayr, 1986b: 449, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 188–189.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 606539 , adult female, collected at Piara , 10.44S, 142.34E ( USBGN, 1957b), Cape York , Queensland, Australia, on 12 August 1913, by Robin Kemp (no. 3141). From the Mathews Collection (no. 17930) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description. Meise (1931: 333) designated Kemp’s specimen number 3141 as the lectotype. Despite a note to this effect by Meise on the reverse of the Rothschild label, the specimen had not previously been put in the type collection. There are three paralectotypes: AMNH 606536 , male from Thursday Island (this is apparently the specimen mentioned by Mathews in which Kemp marked the iris ‘‘black’’; however, it is not immature) ; and AMNH 606537 , female?, and AMNH 606538 , sex?, both collected at the Cable Station, Cape York, by Kemp on 15 February 1913. They were not entered in Mathews’ catalog .

Piara, or ‘‘Paira’’ as it is sometimes spelled, was the home of Bert Vidgen in Muddy Bay where many early collectors on Cape York stayed.