Pteropodocys maxima neglecta 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 : 57

Pteropodocys maxima neglecta Mathews

Pteropodocys maxima neglecta Mathews, 1912a: 325 (Broome Hill, South­West Australia).

Now Coracina maxima (Rüppell, 1839) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 585, and Johnstone, 2001: 87.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 560998 , adult female, collected at Broomehill, 33°51′S, 117°38′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 411), Western Australia, on 23 July 1906, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1912) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mathews did not say how many specimens he had, only that the range of neglecta was ‘‘ West Australia’ ’. Paratypes from Western Australia, cataloged by Mathews at the same time as the holotype, are: AMNH 560999 , 561000 , 561005– 561007 , all collected at Broomehill by Tom Cart­ er ; and AMNH 561008 , collected at Lake Way by F.L. W[hitlock] .