Machaerirhynchus flaviventer secundus 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 : 216-217

Machaerirhynchus flaviventer secundus Mathews

Machaerirhynchus flaviventer secundus Mathews, 1912a: 322 (North Queensland, (Bartle Frere)).

Now Machaerirhynchus flaviventer secundus Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 521– 522.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 653525 , adult male, collected on Bartle Frere, 3000 ft, 17.23S, 145.49E ( USBGN, 1957b), Queensland, Australia, on 11 June 1900, by E. Olive (no. 125). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4170) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. According to his catalog, he acquired this Olive specimen from Rothschild ; however, no Rothschild Collection label remains attached to it. In addition to Olive’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes are: AMNH 653529 (Mathews no. 1854), female, Bartle Frere , 13 June 1900, collected by Olive ; AMNH 653540 (8006), Kuranda , 13 May 1910, collected by Dodd ; AMNH 653541 (9546), male, AMNH 653542 (9543), male, AMNH 653543 (9545), male, AMNH 653544 (9547), male, AMNH 653553 (9544), female, AMNH 653554 (9541), female, and AMNH 653558 (9542), unsexed, Barron River, April– June 1911, collected by Dodd ; and AMNH 653559 (9019), AMNH 653560 (9020), AMNH 653561 (9021), and AMNH 653562 (5024), Barron River, June and July 1910, collected by Dodd. AMNH 653563 (16856), collected on the Barron River in 1884, was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913 and is not a paratype .