Petroica cucullata vigorsi 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 : 248

Petroica cucullata vigorsi Mathews

Petroica cucullata vigorsi Mathews, 1912a: 305 (Victoria).

Now Melanodryas cucullata cucullata Latham, 1801 . See Mayr, 1986d: 566, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 368–370.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 607806 , adult male, collected at Frankston , 38.08S, 145.07E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 5 October 1908. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1661) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and the original field label, with the number ‘‘446’’ on this label referring to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). The following specimens are paratypes: Frankston, AMNH 607808 (Mathews no. 1659) and 607809 (8550) ; Melton , AMNH 607814 (5090) and 607815 (5091) ; Ultima , AMNH 607816 (4548) ; and Victoria, AMNH 607823 (1660). Other Victorian specimens were collected before the publication of the name, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 607805 , Fern Tree Gully, male, 2 January 1904 ; AMNH 607807 , Frankston , male, 5 October 1908 ; AMNH 607810 , male, and AMNH 607811 , female, Bayswater, October 1894 ; AMNH 607813 , Kerang , April 1905 ; and AMNH 607817 , male, Ringwood , 24 July 1909. AMNH 607812 , male, Heidelburg, 1890, was not cataloged by Mathews until October 1912 (no. 14363) .

Mathews (1913a: 170) specified the type locality of vigorsi as Frankston, the collecting locality of his holotype.