Myiagra rubecula ringwoodi 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 : 206

Myiagra rubecula ringwoodi Mathews

Myiagra rubecula ringwoodi Mathews, 1912a: 321 (Victoria).

Now Myiagra rubecula rubecula (Latham, 1801) . See Watson et al., 1986c: 518, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 509–511, and Dickinson, 2003: 503.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 652919 , adult male, collected at Ringwood , 37.51S, 145.13E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 12 December 1908, by Frank E. Howe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9451) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The number ‘‘488’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). It bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels and, unusually, it is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Mathews’ catalog. I did not find other Ringwood specimens in AMNH and was unable to document when Mathews acquired other Victorian specimens collected before the date of publication of the name. Mathews (1913a: 187) specified the type locality of ringwoodi as the collecting locality of his holotype.