Rhipidura tricolor utingu Mathews, 1912e: 90 (Cape York).
Now Rhipidura leucophrys picata Gould, 1848. See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 537, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 488–489.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651455, adult unsexed, collected at Utingu, Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 15 May 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 883). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12870) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Four paratypes were collected at Utingu by Kemp in May and June 1912 and cataloged by Mathews before the publication date of 18 September 1912: AMNH 651449 (Mathews no. 13166), male?; AMNH 651451 (13164), female?; AMNH 651453 (13165), female; and AMNH 651456 (12869), unsexed.
Utingu was a coconut plantation on Cape York, opposite Possession Island, 10.43S, 142.24E (USBGN, 1957b) (Jack, 1921: 342, 739).