Poecilodryas superciliosa derbyii 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 : 258-259

Poecilodryas superciliosa derbyii Mathews

Poecilodryas superciliosa derbyii Mathews, 1913e: 75 (Derby, North-west Australia).

Now Poecilodryas cerviniventris (Gould, 1858) . See Mayr, 1986d: 577, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 354.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608104 , sex?, collect- ed at Derby , 17.18S, 123.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, on 16 September 1886 (not 1906), by Captain Thomas H. Bowyer-Bower (no. 332). From the Mathews Collection (no. 17033) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from Derby and collected on ‘‘ 16-9-1906 ’’. Mathews erred in citing the year of collection as 1906. The ’86 on the label could be construed as ’06, but a second specimen was also collected in 1886, the year in which Bowyer-Bower died ( Whittell, 1954: 71). Mathews (1920a: 192) correctly cited the date. The specimen bears a small paper tag, apparently Bowyer-Bower’s field label, with the number ‘‘332’’ on one side and an ‘‘X’’ on the other; a Mathews Collection label bearing his catalog number (not cited in the original description) and the number ‘‘469’’, refering to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a); a green Mathews type label; and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 389, opp. p. 191, text p. 192), where he failed to mention that it was the type of derbyi. The paratype is AMNH 608105 (Mathews no. 17032), female, collected at Derby on 9 September 1886.