Coracina hypoleuca parryi 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 : 64

Coracina hypoleuca parryi Mathews

Coracina hypoleuca parryi Mathews, 1912b: 43 (Parry’s Creek, North­west Australia).

Now Coracina papuensis hypoleuca (Gould, 1848) . See

Schodde and Mason, 1999: 581, 583, Johnstone, 2001: 87, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 36.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561543 , adult male, collected on Parry’s Creek, 15°36′S, 128°17′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 419), alt. 10 ft, 5 mi west of Trig Station HJ 9, East Kimberley , Western Australia, on 31 August 1908, by John P. Rogers (no. 36). From the Mathews Collection (no. 1933) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews Collection catalog number of the type was given in the original description. This specimens bears Rogers’ field label, the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and the Mathews yellow label, indicating that it was figured in Mathews (1921–1922, pt. 3, p. 124 and pl. 414).

Mathews (1912b: 43) did not say how many specimens he had and gave the range of parryi as ‘‘ North­west Australia’’. An additional three specimens were collected by Rogers at Parry’s Creek and cataloged at the same time (Mathews Collection numbers 1934–1936) and so are paratypes: AMNH 561544–561546.