Seisura inquieta rogersi 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 : 214

Seisura inquieta rogersi Mathews

Seisura inquieta rogersi Mathews, 1921b: 68 (Derby, North-west Australia).

Now Myiagra nana (Gould, 1870) . See Watson et al., 1986c: 526, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 518–520.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 653726 ( Mathews no. 17043), adult male, collected on 29 May 1886, by T.H. Bowyer-Bower ; AMNH 653729 (6323), adult male, collected on 2 December 1910 ; AMNH 653730 (6322), adult male, collected on 2 December 1910 ; AMNH 653731 (6321), adult male, collected on 11 December 1910 ; and AMNH 653732 (6324), adult female, collected on 2 December 1910 by J.P. Rogers (nos. 965, 966, 1001, and 964, respectively). All syntypes were collected at Derby, 17.18S, 123.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, with Mathews saying only that he had a ‘‘good series’’ from Derby. Other AMNH specimens collected by Bowyer-Bower and Rogers at Derby were never part of the Mathews Collection and are not syntypes.