Myiagra nitida robinsoni 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 : 211

Myiagra nitida robinsoni Mathews

Myiagra nitida robinsoni Mathews, 1912a: 322 (Cooktown, North Queensland).

Now Myiagra cyanoleuca (Vieillot, 1818) . See Watson et al., 1986: 523, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 514.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 653231 , [adult male], collected at Cooktown, 15.29S, 145.15E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, and received from Herbert C. Robinson. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9453) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, noting in his catalog that it was the type and was received from Robinson. There is no original label on the specimen, only Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a Mathews collection label, annotated on the reverse ‘‘received with others from Cooktown’’. The number ‘‘490’’ that appears on the latter label is the number of the species in Mathews (1908a). It was cataloged by Mathews in October 1911 and is the only Robinson specimen cataloged at that time. One can only wonder if this is the second 1899 E. Olive specimen listed by Robinson and Laverock (1900: 629) in their account of Olive’s collection (see below under Piezorhynchus nitidus wardelli ).