Strepera graculina robinsoni Mathews, 1912

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 75-76

Strepera graculina robinsoni Mathews

Strepera graculina robinsoni Mathews, 1912a: 443 (North Queensland).

Now Strepera graculina robinsoni Mathews, 1912 . See Amadon, 1951: 24–25; 1962b: 170; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 551–554; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 340–341.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673608 , adult male, collected on the Johnstone River , 17.31S, 146.04E ( USBGN, 1957), northern Queensland, Australia, on 19 June 1900, by E. Olive (no. 65). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4287) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range as North Queensland. The type does not now bear a ‘‘Figured’’ label, but it was the model for Mathews (1923b: pl. 488, bottom fig., opp. p. 406, text p. 407) where he confirmed that the specimen collected on the ‘‘Johnson River, North Queensland’’ on 19 June 1900 is the type of robinsoni.

The following are paratypes: Johnstone River, AMNH 673606 , 673607 , 673609– 673612 (Mathews nos. 4285, 4286, 4288, 4290, 4291, 4292), three males, three females, collected 19–20 June 1900, by Olive ; Cooktown , AMNH 673614 (3646), male, 3 July 1900, AMNH 673616 (4289), male, 18 July 1896, both collected by Olive ; Mackay , AMNH 673618 (6466), no other data. AMNH 673613 and 673615, collected by Olive at Bellenden Ker and Cooktown in 1899 were not cataloged by Mathews until November 1913 (nos. 18166, 18167), after the publication of robinsoni on 31 January 1912. AMNH 673617 is an Olive skin of this form but was never in the Mathews Collection .

H.C. Robinson had Olive make a collection of birds for him in 1899 and 1900, which was reported on by Robinson and Laverock (1900: 617–653). Part of this collection was purchased by Mathews and part by Rothschild.