Mirafra javanica grisescens Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 7

Mirafra javanica grisescens Hartert

Mirafra javanica grisescens Hartert, 1905c: 237 (Swan

Hill, Victoria).

Now Mirafra javanica horsfieldii Gould, 1847 . See

Mayr and McEvey, 1960: 177, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 716, 717.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556298 , adult male, collected at Swan Hill , Victoria, Australia, on 8 April 1899, by Robert Hall. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This apparent lapsus on Hartert’s part has been treated as a valid description and placed in the synonymy of M. j. horsfieldii by Mathews (1930: 821), Mayr and McEvey (1960: 177), and Peters (1960a: 7), without comment. The original text reads: ‘‘We have also a male from Swan Hill, Victoria, which is paler and grey­ er than typical horsfieldi, very near to grisescens, but not quite like it.’’ Hartert (1906b: 755) considered it a slip: ‘‘Instead of grisescens I meant to say pallida, as there is no such name as grisescens.’’