Petroica cucullata subpicata 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 : 249

Petroica cucullata subpicata Mathews

Petroica cucullata subpicata Mathews, 1912a: 306 (Northern Territory).

Now Melanodryas cucullata picata Gould, 1865 . See Mayr, 1986d: 567, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 368–370.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 607910 , adult [male], collected at Alexandria , 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, in May 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1678) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: Alexandria, AMNH 607911 (Mathews no. 1681), 607912 (1680), 607913 (1679), 607914 (1682), and AMNH 607915 (1683) ; Mt. Shoalbridge , AMNH 607923 (11031) ; Glencoe , AMNH 607924 (11033) and 607925 (11032) ; and Mary River, AMNH 607926 (11034). The last four specimens were cataloged by Mathews on 28 February 1912 and may not have been in his hands before publication of the name on 31 January 1912 .

Mathews (1913a: 170) specified the type locality of subpicata as Alexandria, the collecting locality of his holotype. Ingram (1907: 403, 1909: 617) reported on the specimens collected by Stalker at Alexandria. Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).