Angroyan cyanopterus perthi 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 : 67

Angroyan cyanopterus perthi Mathews

Angroyan cyanopterus perthi Mathews, 1915a: 131 (Perth, Western Australia).

Now Artamus cyanopterus perthi ( Mathews, 1915) . See Mathews, 1923b: 257–267; 1930: 638; Mayr, 1962b: 165; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 568– 569; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 307.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665323 , adult male, collected at Wanneru (= Wanneroo, as on label), 31.45S, 115.49E ( USBGN, 1957), near Perth , Western Australia, Australia, in July 1907. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2468) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type was from Perth, with no other specimens mentioned. There is no original label on this specimen. The Mathews Collection label gives the data, including the locality ‘‘Wanneroo’’ and Mathews’ catalog number ‘‘2468’’ (which was not given in the original description). It is marked ‘‘TYPE’’ in Mathews’ hand. Also attached is a Rothschild type label. Mathews apparently described perthi from this single specimen.