Pteropodocys maxima pallida Mathews

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 : 57

Pteropodocys maxima pallida Mathews

Pteropodocys maxima pallida Mathews, 1912a: 325 (Alexandra [sic], Northern Territory).

Now Coracina maxima (Rüppell, 1839) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 585.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561016 , adult male, collected at Alexandria , 19°00′S, 136°42′E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, on 10 May 1906, by W. Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1905) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the type was given in the original description. This specimen bears the original Stalker label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Mathews did not state how many specimens he had, only that the range of his new form was ‘‘Northern Territory’’. The holotype was the only Northern Territory specimen Mathews cataloged at that time. For a discussion of this type locality, see Mirafra rufescens .

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 479–484) included the Campephagidae in their expanded family Corvidae .