Rhipidura rufifrons parryi Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 232

Rhipidura rufifrons parryi Mathews

Rhipidura rufifrons parryi Mathews, 1912a: 320 (North-West Australia).

Now Rhipidura dryas dryas Gould, 1843 . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 553, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 476–478.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 650633 , adult female, collected on Parry (5 Parry’s on label) Creek , 15.36S, 128.17E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), 5 mi west of Trig Station HJ 9, East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 1 September 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 44). From the Mathews Collection (no. 1799) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ field label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1921b: pl. 476, opp. p. 18, text p. 21). In the text, the data for the figured adult female are the same as those of this holotype, but the fact that it is the holotype is not indicated. While he gave only ‘‘North-West Australia’’ as the type locality in the original description, Mathews (1913a: 186) later specified the type locality as ‘‘Parry’s Creek’’, the collecting locality of the holotype. This specimen is the only Mathews specimen of this species from northern Western Australia now in AMNH.