Micraeca (sic) pallida De Vis

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 : 238

Micraeca (sic) pallida De Vis

Micraeca (sic) pallida De Vis, 1884: 159 (Kimberley) . Now Microeca fascinans pallida De Vis, 1884 . See

Schodde and Mason, 1999: 378–379.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 604444, adult male, collected at Karumba (5 Kimberley), 17.29S, 140.51E ( Storr, 1984: 184), mouth of Norman River, Queensland, Australia, in July 1884, by Kendall Broadbent (specimen ‘‘a’’). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18464) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews (1942: 39) visited Australia in 1914 and apparently obtained at that time this specimen, which is stamped ‘‘ Queensland Museum’’. De Vis did not designate a type or say how many specimens Broadbent collected, but QM has four additional syntypes (see Ingram, 1987: 248). Ingram (1987: 240) explained De Vis’s card index catalog system ‘‘in which each specimen of a particular taxon received a unique letter (e.g.,, a, b, c, … aa, bb, cc)’’, with this syntype being specimen ‘‘a’’. It bears the QM label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels.