Coracina novae

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 : 58

Coracina novae ­hollandiae didimus Mathews

Coracina novae ­hollandiae didimus Mathews, 1912b:

42 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham,

1802). See Mees, 1961b: 111, Browning and Monroe,

1991: 386, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 578–580,

Dickinson and Dekker, 2002a: 10, and Dickinson et al., 2002a: 34.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561648 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 18 October 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 2208). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10781) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was given in the original description.

The year in which Latham published the name melanops is often given as 1801 (e.g., Peters et al., 1960: 172). However, Browning and Monroe (1991: 386) have given convincing evidence for a publication date of 1802.