Strepera melanoptera halmaturina Mathews

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 : 78

Strepera melanoptera halmaturina Mathews

Strepera melanoptera halmaturina Mathews, 1912a: 444 (Kangaroo Island).

Now Strepera versicolor halmaturina Mathews, 1912 . See Amadon, 1951: 31; 1962b: 171–172; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 557–560; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 341– 342.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673670 , adult male, collected at Middle River , 35.41S, 137.03E ( USBGN, 1957), Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, on 17 October 1905, by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3731) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as Kangaroo Island. The holotype, in addition to Ashby’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it had served as the model for Mathews (1923b: pl. 489, opp. p. 413; text p. 414), where it was confirmed as the type of Strepera melanoptera halmaturina . Mathews had one paratype: AMNH 673671 (Mathews no. 3732), female, collected at Bell Manor, Kangaroo Island, undated, by Edwin Ashby. Another specimen, AMNH 673672 (10356), female, collected at Middle River, Kangaroo Island, 2 December 1911, by S.A.White, was not cataloged until 20 February 1912, after the publication of halmaturina on 31 January 1912.