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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Cracticus torquatus colletti
Mathews
Cracticus torquatus colletti
Mathews, 1912b: 46
(
Northern Territory
).
Now
Cracticus argenteus colletti
Mathews, 1912
. See Amadon, 1951: 7–8; 1962b: 166;
Storr, 1977: 101–102
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 538–541
;
Dickinson, 2003: 463
; and
Russell and Rowley, 2009: 337–338
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 673539
, adult male, collected on the
Mary River
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
15 May 1895
, by
Knut Dahl
(no. 1203).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10162) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
and noted the range as
Northern Territory
.
Mathews (1912b: 25)
had just received specimens from Professor R. Collett, ZMO, including those collected by Dahl, and the
holotype
was apparently the only specimen he had. Three specimens in AMNH collected by J.T.Tunney on the South Alligator River in 1903 were never in the Mathews Collection.
Apparently, this
holotype
had not been recognized prior to
Amadon (1962b)
. Even though it bears a Mathews type label in addition to the original label and a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ it has no Rothschild type label; the AMNH type label is filled in by Amadon.
Amadon (1962b: 166)
considered
argenteus
and
torquatus
to be conspecific and, accepting Port Essington as the
type
locality of
torquatus
, synonymized
colletti
with it and recognized four subspecies.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 540–541)
explained their reasons for considering
argenteus
specifically distinct from
C. torquatus
and noted that they accepted Hanover
Bay
in the Kimberley Division as the
type
locality of
argenteus
, leaving
colletti
as the available name for
Northern Territory
birds. This was followed by
Dickinson (2003: 463)
.
Russell and Rowley (2009: 337)
accepted five subspecies in a single species,
C. torquatus
, including
C. t. colletti
, but noted that if Port Essington is accepted as the
type
locality of
argenteus
, then
colletti
is a synonym and the name
latens
Ford, 1979, is available for the Western Australian form (
type
in WAM).
Dahl (1927: 196–218)
and his party were camping at the headwaters of the Mary River in
May 1895
, in the vicinity of Fountainhead,
13.28S
,
131.29E
(USBGN, 1957).