Artamus minor derbyi 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 : 68

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4628090
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-197B-FF97-6AD1-92081B8BFEDF
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Artamus minor derbyi Mathews
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Artamus minor derbyi Mathews View in CoL

Artamus minor derbyi Mathews, 1912a: 368 View in CoL (Derby, North-West Australia).

Now Artamus minor derbyi Mathews, 1912 View in CoL . See Mayr, 1962b: 165; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 570–571; Dickinson, 2003: 465; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 307.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665370 View Materials , adult male, collected at Derby , 17.18S, 123.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 6 December 1910, by J.P. Rogers (no. 986). From the Mathews Collection (no. 6325) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of derbyi as ‘‘ North-West Australia and Northern Territory.’’ The following specimens were cataloged by Mathews before 31 January 1912, the date of publication of derbyi, and are considered paratypes: Coongan River , AMNH 665365 View Materials (Mathews no. 2490), AMNH 665366 View Materials (2491), females, 1 July 1908, collected by F.B.L. Whitlock ; Derby , AMNH 665372 View Materials (6326), female, 6 December 1910, collected by Rogers ; Point Torment , AMNH 665374 View Materials (8603), female, 6 March 1911, AMNH 665375 View Materials (8388), sex?, 17 February 1911, both collected by Rogers ; Napier Broome Bay , AMNH 665376 View Materials (5623), female, 12 June 1910, collected by G.F. Hill ; Grant Creek, northeast Wyndham , AMNH 665379 View Materials (8967), AMNH 665380 View Materials (8968), sex?, 26 May 1911, collected by Conigrave ; Alexandria , AMNH 665383–665386 View Materials (2482–2485), one male, two females, one sex?, October 1905 – February 1906, collected by W. Stalker. Other AMNH specimens from within the range of derbyi were either cataloged too late or were never in the Mathews Collection .