Coracina tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews, 1912

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 : 67

Coracina tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews

Coracina tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 43 . (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Coracina tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 574.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562661 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, Melville Island, 11°30′S, 131°00′E ( Storr, 1977: 111), Northern Territory, Australia, on 2 November 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 2338). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10785) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the type was cited in the original description. Mathews (1912b: 43) did not say how many specimens he had but gave the range of melvillensis as Melville Island. Paratypes at AMNH are: AMNH 562662–562668.