Coracina novaehollandiae connectens Mathews

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 58-59

Coracina novaehollandiae connectens Mathews

Coracina novaehollandiae connectens Mathews, 1912a:

326 (Inkerman, Queensland).

Now Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham,

1802). See Browning and Monroe, 1991: 386, Schod­

de and Mason, 1999: 578, 580, Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 10, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 34.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561722 , adult male, collected at Inkerman , 19°45′S, 147°29′E ( Storr, 1984b: 154), Queensland, Australia, on 17 October 1907, by William Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1922) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the type was included in the original description. The number 504 that appears on the collector’s label refers to the number of the species in Mathews’ (1908) Handlist. Mathews and Rothschild type labels are also present. The number 762 following the citation in Peters et al. (1960: 172) is the number of this taxon in Mathews’ (1912a) Reference­list in which the description appeared. Mathews did not indicate how many specimens he had, only noting the range of connectens as ‘‘North Queensland’’.

For a discussion of this locality, see Mirafra javanica queenslandica .