Rhipidura flabellifera harterti Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 226

Rhipidura flabellifera harterti Mathews

Rhipidura flabellifera harterti Mathews, 1912a: 319 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri Mathews, 1911 . See Ford, 1981b: 130, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 481–483.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650287 , unsexed adult, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, on 11 April 1907, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1781) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it is the only Queensland specimen entered in the catalog at that point. Ford (1981b: 130) determined that this type was a wintering specimen of alisteri . Mathews gave the range of harterti as ‘‘Mid Queensland’’, and I did not find other mid-Queensland specimens that had been in the Mathews Collection prior to the description. A specimen from Gracemere, collected in 1881, was obtained from Collett, but not cataloged until November 1912, after the publication of harterti in January.

The number ‘‘476’’ on Stalker’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a); his ‘‘Inkerman’’ refers to a cattle station where Stalker collected for Sir William Ingram. Collingwood Ingram (1908: 469) reported on this collection and listed this single specimen as Rhipidura albiscapa . Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1908) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).