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
Lecroy, Mary
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2014
2014-12-30
2014
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Mathews
Mathews
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Aves
Paradisaeidae
Craspedophora
GBIF
Animalia
Passeriformes
97
97
Chordata
subSpecies
magnifica
yorki
COMMENTS: Despite the fact that Mathews (1922: 8)called yorkia new subspecies, this name was supplied in 1922 as a replacement name for Ptiloris albertiElliot, which Mathews considered to be preoccupied by ‘‘ Ptilornis albertiGray, 1869 (1870)’’; Mathews did not indicate a type. However, as noted by Mayr (1962d: 188)the manuscript name supplied by Gray (1870: 105)was a nomen nudum there. Elliot (1871: 580–581)explained that, while he did not generally approve of applying a manuscript name to a new form, in this case he was making an exception and applying Gray’s manuscript name to the smaller Cape Yorkbird collected by Macgillivray; Elliot was validating Gray’s name by providing a description, the typebeing the ‘‘smaller Cape Yorkbird collected by Macgillivray,’’ presumably the specimen in BMNH annotated as ‘‘ alberti’’ by Gray. In 1926, Mathews (1926: 382)summarized his current thinking, noting that the Cape York form had been considered identical to the New Guineaform until Elliot had separated it under Gray’s name ‘‘in preference to giving it a new name.’’ Mathews continued: ‘‘Gray replied that he did not figure it as it already had been figured by Gould and, moreover, he did not agree with the publication of the name, as he did not think the differences he had first observed were valid and therefore he had sank [sic] his unpublished MS. name as a synonym of the typical form. Consequently the name albertiwas invalid from its introduction by Elliot, but the error was only corrected in 1922.’’ This date of 1922 refers to Mathews’ introduction of the name yorkias a replacement name, sharing the same typeas Elliot’s alberti. By 1926 Mathews (1926: 378–382), under Mathewsiella magnifica, had apparently decided that because he considered the name albertito be an invalid introduction, his own description of yorkiwas a valid introduction of a new name and needed a type. AMNH 677640, adult male, collected at Cape York, North Queensland, 5 September 1911, is said by Mathews (1926: pl. 592, upper fig., opp. p. 378; text p. 379) to be the typeof yorki. But as explained above, the typeof yorkiis the same specimen that is the typeof Ptiloris albertiElliot(ICZN, 1999: 78, Art. 72.7), therefore AMNH 677640 has no nomenclatural standing.