Gerygone albogularis queenslandica 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 : 170-171

Gerygone albogularis queenslandica Mathews

Gerygone albogularis queenslandica Mathews, 1912a: 308 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now Gerygone olivacea olivacea (Gould, 1838) . See Meise, 1931: 324, Mayr, 1986b: 447, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 192–193.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 606404 , unsexed adult, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, on 17 May 1907. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1709) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It bears a Mathews Collection label with the above data, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a blank label printed ‘‘ Mus. Brit.’’ and ‘‘Seebohm Coll.’’, which have been marked out. This label has only the name and ‘‘451’’, the number of this form in Mathews (1908a). The original label is not present. The specimen was undoubtedly collected by Wilfred Stalker, as AMNH 606405 (Mathews no. 1708), which bears Stalker’s field label, was collected at Inkerman on the same date and is a paratype. Both were listed as specimens of Gerygone ‘‘ albigularis ’’ by Ingram (1908: 468) in his report on Stalker’s Inkerman collection.

Inkerman Station in Queensland was the site of a collection of birds Stalker made for Sir William Ingram in 1907. Collingwood Ingram (1908: 460) placed it at ca. 50 mi southwest (5 southeast?) of Townsville in 20 ° S, 147 ° E and about 10 mi from the banks of the Burdekin River. Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1908) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).

For use of G. olivacea see Schodde et al. (2007: 277) and Schodde and Bock (submitted), contra use of G. albogularis as suggested by McAllan (2007: 141–142).