Smicrornis brevirostris subflavescens 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 : 166

Smicrornis brevirostris subflavescens Mathews

Smicrornis brevirostris subflavescens Mathews, 1912a: 307 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Smicrornis brevirostris flavescens Gould, 1843 . See Mayr, 1986b: 443, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 176–178.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606320 , adult female, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, in April 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1705) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The number ‘‘450’’ that appears on Stalker’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). The specimen also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There is one paratype: AMNH 606321 (Mathews no. 1707), female, collected by Stalker at Alexandria in April 1905.

Ingram (1907: 403–404) discussed these two specimens. Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).