Tregellasia capito barroni Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 250

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12778225
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scientific name	Tregellasia capito barroni Mathews
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Treatment

Tregellasia capito barroni Mathews, 1916a: 59 (Barron River, North Queensland).

Now Tregellasia capito nana (Ramsay, 1878) View in CoL . See Mayr, 1986d: 569, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 360–361.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 608301 View Materials ( Mathews no. 12393), male, 4 March 1912 ; AMNH 608302 View Materials (12392), female, 4 February 1912 ; AMNH 608303 View Materials (9549), female, 19 May 1911 ; AMNH 608304 View Materials (9017), female, 16 August 1910 ; AMNH 608305 View Materials (12391), female, 4 March 1912 ; AMNH 608306 View Materials (9550), sex?, 30 June 1910 ; and AMNH 608307 View Materials (5026), sex?, 5 June 1910, all collected on the ‘‘ Barron River’ ’, Queensland, Australia, by F.P. Dodd. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that the type was from the Barron River and added no further information in Mathews (1920a: 197–199). Six specimens collected by Dodd on the ‘‘ Barron River’ ’ came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; none had a Mathews type label or any indication of which specimen Mathews considered the type. AMNH 608304 View Materials has a Rothschild type label, but that by itself does not determine type status, because there is no indication that this is the specimen Mathews intended as the type. Therefore, they all are treated as syntypes .

The Barron River arises on the Atherton Tableland and enters the ocean at Cairns. Dodd lived at Kuranda, 16.46S, 145.37E (Times Atlas), on the Atherton Tableland, and these specimens were probably collected near his home.