Cracticus tibicen intermissus 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 : 74-75

Cracticus tibicen intermissus Mathews

Cracticus tibicen intermissus Mathews, 1912a: 372 (Victoria) .

Now considered an intergrade between Gymnorhina tibicen terraereginae and tyrannia or undifferentiated from them. See Amadon, 1951: 20–21; 1962b: 169; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 545–550; Hughes et al., 2001: 25–34; Dickinson, 2003: 463; Toon et al., 2003: 337– 343; Toon et al., 2007: 2525–2547; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 339–340.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673014 , adult female, collected at Bendigo (as on label), 36.48S, 144.21E (Times Atlas ), Victoria, Australia, on 30 March 1907, by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5077) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ He apparently did not have any specimens from South Australia. I have found only one definite paratype: Bendigo , AMNH 673013 (Mathews no. 5076), male, 30 March 1907, collected by Tregellas. There are two additional Mathews specimens that are possible paratypes, but I did not find them in his catalog and don’t know when they came into his possession: AMNH 673016 , female, Kerang, April 1905, collector ?; AMNH 673021 , male, Nagambie, 4 March 1908, collected by C.F. Cole.

Although this Mathews form was not mentioned specifically by Schodde and Mason (1999: 445–450), the holotype appears to come from the zone of intergradation between Cracticus tibicen terraereginae and tyrannica. But see the results of recent mtDNA results obtained by Hughes et al. (2001) and Toon et al. (2003, 2007).