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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Scenopoeetes dentirostris minor
Mathews
Scenopoeetes dentirostris minor
Mathews, 1915a: 132
(Johnstone River,
Queensland
).
Now
Scenopoeetes dentirostris
(Ramsay, 1876)
. See
Mathews, 1926: 307–312
;
1930: 889
;
Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 3–4
;
Mayr, 1962c: 175
;
Gilliard, 1969: 273–281
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 625
;
Dickinson, 2003: 427
; and
Frith and Frith, 2004: 257–259
;
2009a: 394
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 679423
, male, collected on the
Johnstone River
,
17.31S
,
146.04E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
23 June 1900
, by
E. Olive
(no. 63).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 4295) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave Johnstone River as the collecting locality of the type, without any further identifying information. Mathews had six specimens from the Johnstone River, cataloged by him as numbers 4293–4298. AMNH 679423 bears in addition to Olive’s original label, a Mathews label with ‘‘Type’’ and ‘‘minor’’ in his hand and a Rothschild type label, both marked with Mathews catalog number, although this was not cited in the original description.
Hartert (1929a: 55)
, by listing as the type the single specimen collected by Olive on
23 June 1900
thereby designated it the
lectotype
. He also noted that this type specimen is juvenile and has the wing and tail feathers abraded, giving an unusually small wing measurement for the type. The five
paralectotypes
, all collected by Olive on the Johnstone River in
June 1900
, are:
AMNH 679422, 679424, 679425
, males, and
AMNH 679426, 679427
, females.
These specimens were reported on by
Robinson and Laverock (1900: 623)
under the name
Tectonornis dentirostris
and were said to have come from Mount Bellenden Ker, although all the labels are marked ‘‘Johnstone River.’’