Cracticus nigrogularis tormenti Mathews

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 70

Cracticus nigrogularis tormenti Mathews

Cracticus nigrogularis tormenti Mathews, 1912b: 46 (Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Cracticus nigrogularis picatus Gould, 1848 . See Amadon, 1951: 10–11; 1962b: 167; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 543–544; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 338–339.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673440 , female, collected at Pago Mission (= Mission Station ), 14.10S, 126.42E (Times Atlas ), Napier Broome Bay, Western Australia, Australia, on 20 May 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 522). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5599) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range as ‘‘ North-west Australia.’’ The following specimens are considered paratypes of tormenti: Point Torment, West Kimberley, AMNH 673423– 673428 (Mathews nos. 8294, 8405–8407, 8751, 8752), three males, three females, collected between 1 January 1911 and 12 April 1911, collected by J.P. Rogers ; Manguel (= Marngle) Creek, AMNH 673429 (9435), male, 1 June 1911, collected by Rogers ; Derby , AMNH 673430 (5180), male, 1896, collected by Tunney ; Napier Broome Bay , AMNH 673433 , 673434 , 673436–673439 (5598, 5600, 5601, 5647–5649), three males, three females, 29 December 1909 – 23 June 1910, collected by G.F. Hill ; Grant Creek , AMNH 673443 , 673444 (8957, 8958), two sex?, 26 May 1911, 26 July 1911, collected by C.P. Conigrave.