Cracticus nigrogularis coongani Mathews

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 : 71

Cracticus nigrogularis coongani Mathews

Cracticus nigrogularis coongani Mathews, 1923a: 35 (Coongan River, Mid-west Australia).

Now Cracticus nigrogularis picatus Gould, 1848 . See Amadon, 1951: 9–10; 1962b: 167; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 543–544; Dickinson, 2003: 463; Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 274–277; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 338–339.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673422 , adult male, collected on the Coongan River , 20.31S, 119.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 505), Western Australia, Australia, on 13 July 1908, by F.L. Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2579) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews (1923a: 33–44) rushed into print fearing that new names he had planned to introduce in the remaining volumes of ‘‘The Birds of Australia’’ would be anticipated by others. He provided minimal information concerning the new forms, and frequently it has been impossible to determine whether he actually had a specimen in hand. In the case of coongani he apparently had a single specimen. This description was published on 21 February 1923, and part 6 of volume 10 of The Birds of Australia ( Mathews, 1923b) was published on 5 June 1923. In his account in the latter he discussed several authors’ opinions concerning the Coongan River birds and noted that he had named it. AMNH 673421, an immature female collected on the Coongan River by J.T. Tunney and reported on by Hartert (1905: 229), was never in the Mathews Collection.