Microeca flavigaster laetissima Rothschild, 1916

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 : 240

Microeca flavigaster laetissima Rothschild

Microeca flavigaster laetissima Rothschild, 1916: 4 (Cardwell, Queensland).

Now Microeca flavigaster laetissima Rothschild, 1916 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 375–377.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 604649 , adult female, collected at Cardwell , 18.14S, 146.02E ( Storr, 1984: 180), Queensland, Australia, undated. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild stated in the original description that the type was a female from Cardwell and gave measurements of six specimens from Bowen, Cardwell, and Mulgrave. The holotype is the only specimen from Cardwell; the five paratypes are: AMNH 604650 , male, Mulgrave, November 1889 ; and AMNH 604651–604654 from Bowen without additional data and originally from the Godeffroy Museum .