Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, 1912

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

Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews

Gerygone magnirostris cairnsensis Mathews, 1912a: 309 (Queensland (Cairns)).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606541 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in August 1908, by P. Schräder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1738) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears Mathews’ Collection and type labels and a Rothschild type label. The number ‘‘457’’ that appears on the Mathews label is the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). There is one paratype: AMNH 606545, adult female, collected by Schräder at Cairns in August 1908. This specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 384, left middle fig., opp. p. 149, text p. 151), but it is not there said to be the type. Neither of these specimens bears the original Schräder label.

There are three additional Schräder specimens, bearing original labels, collected at Cairns in November 1911. They were not cataloged by Mathews (nos. 11258–11260) until 16 March 1912 and were presumably received after publication of the name on 31 January 1912.