Corcorax melanoramphos whiteae Mathews, 1912

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 : 61

Corcorax melanoramphos whiteae Mathews

Corcorax melanoramphos whiteae Mathews, 1912a: 446 (Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia).

Now Corcorax melanorhamphos whiteae Mathews, 1912 . See Hartert, 1929: 54; Mayr, 1962a: 160; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 616–617; Dickinson, 2003: 515; and Rowley and Russell, 2009a: 284.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673745 , adult female, collected on the west coast near Lake Greenly , 34.20S, 135.25E ( USBGN, 1957), Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, on 29 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 58). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9563) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of whiteae as South Australia. This female holotype was described, but not illustrated, in Mathews (1927: 415). AMNH 673746 (Mathews no. 12218), male, Streaky Bay, 29 August 1911, was not cataloged until May 1912, after the 31 January 1912 publication of whiteae, and is therefore not accepted as a paratype. Other specimens of this form in AMNH from South Australia were collected after the description was published or were not part of the Mathews Collection.

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 616–617) for recognition of whiteae.