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
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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[
Chlamydera maculata nova
Mathews] [
Chlamydera maculata carteri
Mathews
]
Chlamydera maculata
nova
Mathews, 1920: 76
(North-west Cape, Mid-west
Australia
).
Chlamydera maculata carteri
Mathews
in
Carter and Mathews, 1920: 499
.
Now
Chlamydera guttata carteri
Mathews, 1920
.
Mathews (1920: 76)
introduced
C. m. nova
and designated as the
type
a specimen collected on ‘‘
North-west
Cape
, Mid-west Australia’’ on
7 August 1916
. AMNH 679152, female, collected at Hooroomooroo,
North West
Cape
, by Tom Carter, bears an AMNH
type
label, but the date on this specimen is
6 August 1916
, and it is therefore not the
type
even though it was collected by Carter on the same collecting trip.
Hartert (1929a: 55–57)
did not list a
type
in the Rothschild Collection for
nova
and no specimen was so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to
New York
.
An illustrated account of
nova
was published by
Carter and Mathews (1920: 499)
and in an initialed footnote, Mathews offered
carteri
as a replacement name for
C. maculata
nova
if it and
Alphachlamydera cerviniventris
nova
Mathews, 1915
, were both included in
Chlamydera
.
C. maculata
nova
and
C. maculata carteri
share the same
type
.
Frith and Frith (1997)
traced the six specimens that Carter (in
Carter and Mathews, 1921: 75–79
) secured and found that there were two collected on 7 August, but one was marked ‘‘
nova
type.’’ They designated this specimen, HLW
6591 in
MV, as the
lectotype
of
Chlamydera maculata
nova
(not of
Chlamydera guttata carteri
, although the two names automatically share the same type).
AMNH 679152
remains in the
AMNH
type collection because it bears a type label, but an added label explains its nontype status. Only
7 August 1916
was mentioned in the original description
;
the second specimen in
MV
collected on that date would be the
paralectotype
.