Chlamydera nuchalis oweni 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 : 89-90

Chlamydera nuchalis oweni Mathews

Chlamydera nuchalis oweni Mathews, 1912a: 440 (North-West Australia (Point Torment)).

Now Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jardine and Selby, 1830) . See Mathews, 1926: 340–350; Hartert, 1929a: 56; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 11–13; Mayr, 1962c: 180; Gilliard, 1969: 363– 373; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 636–637; Frith and Frith, 2004: 423–426; Christidis and Boles, 2008: 179–180; and Frith and Frith, 2009a: 403.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679244 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.15S, 123.44E ( USBGN, 1957), King Sound, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 14 March 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1407). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8578) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of oweni as ‘‘North-West Australia, Northern Territory.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1926: pl. 587, upper fig., opp. p. 340; text p. 341), where it is confirmed as the type of oweni. In this later publication, it is placed by Mathews in the genus Rogersornis .

The following specimens cataloged by Mathews before the publication of oweni are paratypes: AMNH 679245 (Mathews no. 8753), female, Point Torment , 23 March 1911 ; AMNH 679246 (9386), Marngle Creek , West Kimberley, 3 June 1911 ; AMNH 679247 (9835), male, AMNH 679248 (9834), female, King River , July 1911 ; AMNH 679249 (5185), male, Wyndham , 29 October 1907 ; AMNH 679250 (3659), 679251 (3660), 679252 (3658), three males, Parry Creek , May 1902 and November-December 1908 ; AMNH 679254 (5186), female, Negri River , East Kimberley, May 1902 ; AMNH 679258 (3663), male, 679259 (3664), female, Port Keats , January 1906. Other specimens in AMNH were either cataloged by Mathews after the publication of oweni or were never in Mathews’ collection. AMNH 679246 bears a Mathews ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it served as the model for Mathews (1926: pl. 587, lower fig., opp. p. 340; text p. 341) .

Schodde and Mason (1999: 636–637) considered oweni a synonym of C. nuchalis nuchalis and Dickinson (2003: 428) and Frith and Frith (2004: 424; 2009a: 403) agreed.